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Lithotorus cressoni
Taxonomy
Lithotorus cressoni was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is Packard 131, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Green River (Packard Collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Lithotorus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1890 | Lithotorus cressoni Scudder p. 609 figs. Pl 10 fig 21 |
| 1966 | Lithotorus cressoni Townes p. 135 fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Lithotorus cressoni Spasojevic et al. p. 51 fig. 10a |
| 2019 | Lithotorus cressoni Klopfstein and Spasojevic p. 17 fig. 6A |
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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.
†Lithotorus cressoni Scudder 1890
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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: Bridgerian or 50.50000 to 46.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | Lithotorus cressoni (type locality: 122090) |