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Restesia americana
Taxonomy
Squatirhina americana was named by Estes (1964). Its type specimen is UCMP 55820, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lull 2 Quarry (UCMP V-5620), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Lance Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Restesia.
It was recombined as Restesia americana by Cook et al. (2014).
It was recombined as Restesia americana by Cook et al. (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1964 | Squatirhina americana Estes pp. 12-13 fig. 5 |
| 1989 | Squatirhina americana Bryant p. 11 |
| 2014 | Restesia americana Cook et al. p. 235–236 |
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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.
†Restesia americana Estes 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available