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Flectihystricurus flectimembrus
Taxonomy
Hystricurus flectimembrus was named by Ross (1951) [Paratypes: YPM 17970-1, 17973-9, 18300]. Its type specimen is YPM 17972, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 6, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "F", which is in a Stairsian shallow subtidal horizon in the Garden City Formation of Idaho. It is the type species of Flectihystricurus.
It was recombined as Flectihystricurus flectimembrus by Adrain et al. (2003).
It was recombined as Flectihystricurus flectimembrus by Adrain et al. (2003).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1951 | Hystricurus flectimembrus Ross p. 48 figs. Pl. 10, figs. 29, 30, 31 |
| 2003 | Flectihystricurus flectimembrus Adrain et al. p. 564 |
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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.
†Flectihystricurus flectimembrus Ross 1951
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||