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Priscacara campi

Osteichthyes - Cichliformes - Priscacaridae

Taxonomy
Priscacara campi was named by Hesse (1936). Its type specimen is University of Washington College of Mines, a skeleton (complete skeleton), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Northwestern Improvement Company No. 2 Mine, which is in an Eocene lacustrine shale in the Roslyn Formation of Washington.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Priscacara campi Hesse p. 746

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
infraclassActinopteri()
RankNameAuthor
—Teleosteomorpha
—Acanthopterygii
—Percomorphaceae
—OvalentariaSmith and Near 2012
superorderCichlomorphae
orderCichliformes
familyPriscacaridae
genusPriscacara
speciescampi

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.

†Priscacara campi Hesse 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
body height1114.0

Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Middle Eocene or 48.07000 to 37.71000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Eocene48.07 - 37.71USA (Washington) Priscacara campi (type locality: 106377)