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Lamna mediavia
Taxonomy
Lamna mediavia was named by Leriche (1942). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Prarie Creek, which is in a Paleocene marine horizon in Alabama.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Lamna mediavia Leriche p. 590 |
| 1942 | Lamna mediavia Leriche p. 14 figs. Plate I, Fig. 12-19 |
| 1981 | Lamna mediavia Thurmond and Jones p. 53 |
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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.
†Lamna mediavia Leriche 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Paleocene or 70.60000 to 56.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Dakota) | Lamna mediavia (84018) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Alabama) | Lamna mediavia (type locality: 84011) |