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Actinosepia canadensis
Taxonomy
Actinosepia canadensis was named by Whiteaves (1897) [DISTRIBUTION: Campanian; Western Interior.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is South Saskatchewan River, opposite Swift Current Creek, which is in a Campanian offshore siliciclastic in the Bearpaw Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Actinosepia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1897 | Actinosepia canadensis Whiteaves pp. 459-460 figs. pl. 29, fig. 2 |
| 1937 | Actinosepia canadensis Russell and Landes p. 180 |
| 1965 | Actinosepia canadensis Waage p. 18 figs. Pl 1; pl 2; pl 3; pl 4a,b,c; text-fig 1 |
| 2010 | Actinosepia canadensis Larson p. 87 fig. 2,3 |
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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.
†Actinosepia canadensis Whiteaves 1897
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Actinosepia canadensis (type locality: 212985) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Actinosepia canadensis (82638 212983 212984 212986) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Montana) | Actinosepia canadensis (213093) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (South Dakota) | Actinosepia canadensis (88510 88511) |