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Tapholyda caplani
Taxonomy
Cephaleia caplani was named by Cockerell (1933). Its type specimen is UCM 18623, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Creede (UCM collection), which is in an Oligocene crater lake shale in the Creede Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Tapholyda.
It was recombined as Acantholyda caplani by Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn (1972); it was recombined as Tapholyda caplani by Rasnitsyn (1983), Rasnitsyn (1983), Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015), Jouault et al. (2022).
It was recombined as Acantholyda caplani by Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn (1972); it was recombined as Tapholyda caplani by Rasnitsyn (1983), Rasnitsyn (1983), Taeger et al. (2010), Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2015), Jouault et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1933 | Cephaleia caplani Cockerell pp. 186-187 fig. 1 |
| 1972 | Acantholyda caplani Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn p. 323 fig. 11,12 |
| 1983 | Tapholyda caplani Rasnitsyn p. 69 |
| 2010 | Tapholyda caplani Taeger et al. p. 81 |
| 2015 | Tapholyda caplani Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 210 |
| 2022 | Tapholyda caplani Jouault et al. p. 174 figs. 1-6 |
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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.
†Tapholyda caplani Cockerell 1933
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 27.30000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | USA (Colorado) | Cephaleia caplani (type locality: 117882) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Russian Federation (Khabarovsk) | Tapholyda caplani (117672) |