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Oligopygus nancei
Taxonomy
Oligopygus nancei was named by Cooke (1941). Its type specimen is U. S. Nat. Mus. 498964, a test (seven individuals, all imperfect), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Headwaters of Río Amana, which is in an Eocene marine limestone in the Santa Anita Formation of Venezuela.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2009-07-05
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1941 | Oligopygus nancei Cooke p. 305 |
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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.
†Oligopygus nancei Cooke 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Eocene | Venezuela (Anzoátegui) | Oligopygus nancei (type locality: 90060) |