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Thalassocnus natans
Taxonomy
Thalassocnus natans was named by Muizon and McDonald (1995). Its type specimen is MNHN SAS 734, a partial skeleton (skull, mandible, and partial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sud Sacaco, Montemar, which is in a Messinian paralic siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Thalassocnus natans Muizon and McDonald p. 224 figs. Fig. 1-2 |
| 2017 | Thalassocnus natans Amson et al. p. 231 figs. Fig. 10 |
| 2019 | Thalassocnus natans Peralta-Prato and Solórzano p. 696 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Thalassocnus natans Muizon and McDonald 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hasegawa and Otsuka 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Messinian or 7.24600 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian - Messinian | Chile | Thalassocnus natans (154642) | |
| Messinian | Peru (Caraveli) | Thalassocnus natans (type locality: 46084) |