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Palaeoaphis archimedia
Taxonomy
Palaeoaphis archimedia was named by Richards (1966). Its type specimen is CNC 9170, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (CNC 1963 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada. It is the type species of Palaeoaphis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1966 | Palaeoaphis archimedia Richards p. 752 figs. 9-13 |
| 2011 | Palaeoaphis archimedia Heie and Wegierek p. 49 |
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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.
†Palaeoaphis archimedia Richards 1966
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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 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) | Palaeoaphis archimedia (type locality: 122353) | |
| Middle Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Palaeoaphis archimedia (34896) |