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Peraspalax talpoides
Taxonomy
Peraspalax talpoides was named by Owen (1871). Its type specimen is BMNH 47738, a mandible (partial left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Peraspalax.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1871 | Peraspalax talpoides Owen |
| 1928 | Peraspalax talpoides Simpson p. 142 |
| 2004 | Peraspalax talpoides Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 387 |
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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.
†Peraspalax talpoides Owen 1871
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003, Hopson 1973, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Middle Berriasian or 141.00000 to 139.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Peraspalax talpoides (type locality: 72142) |