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Taxonomy
Botauroides parvus was named by Shufeldt (1915). Its type specimen is YPM 1030, a set of limb elements, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Spanish John's Meadow, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Botauroides.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1915 | Botauroides parvus Shufeldt p. 33 |
| 1930 | Botauroides parvus Hay p. 295 |
| 1933 | Botauroides parvus Lambrecht p. 316 |
| 1940 | Botauroides parvus Wetmore p. 17 |
| 1956 | Botauroides parvus Wetmore p. 21 |
| 1976 | Botauroides parvus Feduccia and Martin p. 108 |
| 1985 | Botauroides parvus Olson p. 127 |
| 1992 | Botauroides parvus Houde and Olson |
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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.
†Botauroides parvus Shufeldt 1915
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Marsh 1875, Thiollay 1994 | |||||
Age range: Middle Eocene or 47.80000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | USA (Wyoming) | Botauroides parvus (type locality: 81457) |