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Reticulitermes creedei
Taxonomy
Reticulitermes creedei was named by Snyder (1938). Its type specimen is MCZ 4472 ab, a hindwing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Creede (MCZ collection), which is in an Oligocene crater lake shale in the Creede Formation of Colorado.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Paicheler (1993).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Paicheler (1993).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1938 | Reticulitermes creedei Snyder pp. 109-110 figs. Pl 13 fig 3 |
| 1949 | Reticulitermes creedei Snyder p. 365 |
| 1958 | Reticulitermes creedei Pierce p. 24 |
| 1998 | Reticulitermes creedei Fontes and Vulcano p. 283 |
| 2013 | Reticulitermes creedei Krishna et al. p. 795 |
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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.
†Reticulitermes creedei Snyder 1938
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | USA (Colorado) | Reticulitermes creedei (type locality: 121977) |