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Millardicurus armatus
Taxonomy
Hystricurus armatus was named by Poulsen (1937). Its type specimen is MGUH 3641, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 3, Andrée Land, which is in a Tremadocian carbonate limestone in the Cass Fjord Formation of Greenland.
It was recombined as Millardicurus armatus by Adrain and Westrop (2006).
It was recombined as Millardicurus armatus by Adrain and Westrop (2006).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Hystricurus armatus Poulsen p. 31 figs. Pl. 2, figs. 3-9 |
| 2006 | Millardicurus armatus Adrain and Westrop p. 669 |
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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.
†Millardicurus armatus Poulsen 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||
Age range: base of the Tremadocian to the top of the Skullrockian or 486.85000 to 483.40000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Skullrockian | Canada (Newfoundland) | Millardicurus armatus (195692 195696 195702 195703 195704) | |
| Skullrockian | Greenland | Hystricurus armatus (122109) | |
| Tremadocian | Greenland | Hystricurus armatus (type locality: 122085 122086 122087) |