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Castor veterior
Taxonomy
Castor veterior was named by Lankester (1864). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Suffolk (Sutton), which is in a Pliocene coastal siliciclastic in the Red Crag Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1864 | Castor veterior Lankester p. 355 figs. Plate 8, Fig. 5, 6 |
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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.
†Castor veterior Lankester 1864
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Dunn and Rasmussen 2007 |
Age range: Late/Upper Pliocene or 3.60000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Pliocene | United Kingdom (England) | Castor veterior (type locality: 152484) |