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Priscacara campi

Actinopteri - Cichliformes - Cichlidae

Taxonomy
Priscacara campi was named by Hesse (1936). Its type specimen is University of Washington College of Mines, a skeleton (complete skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Northwestern Improvement Company No. 2 Mine, which is in an Eocene lacustrine shale in the Roslyn Formation of Washington.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Priscacara campi Hesse p. 746

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
—Teleocephalade Pinna 1996
—ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
RankNameAuthor
—Euteleosteomorpha
—NeoteleosteiRosen 1973
—Eurypterygia(Rosen 1973)
—Ctenosquamata
—Acanthomorphata(Rosen 1973)
—Euacanthomorphacea
—Percomorphaceae
—Carangimorpharia
—Ovalentariae
superorderCichlomorphae
orderCichliformes
familyCichlidaeHeckel 1840
genusPriscacara
speciescampi

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.

†Priscacara campi Hesse 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available