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Cretaceogaster pygmaeus
Taxonomy
Cretaceogaster pygmaeus was named by Teskey (1971). Its type specimen is MCZ 6954, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada. It is the type species of Cretaceogaster.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Teskey p. 1660 figs. 1-4 |
| 1998 | Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Nagatomi and Yang p. 138 figs. 86-89 |
| 1999 | Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Grimaldi and Cumming p. 17 fig. 11 |
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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.
†Cretaceogaster pygmaeus Teskey 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Manitoba) | Cretaceogaster pygmaeus (type locality: 122354) | |
| Middle Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Cretaceogaster pygmaeus (122389) |