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Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus
Taxonomy
Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus was named by Wilimovsky (1956). Its type specimen is UMMP 22210, a partial skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Bear Creek/Rock Creek (UMMP), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Protoscaphirhynchus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus Wilimovsky pp. 1206-1207 figs. 1-2 |
| 2006 | Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus Grande and Hilton p. 3 |
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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.
†Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus Wilimovsky 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Bryant 1989, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Montana) | Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus (type locality: 67129) |