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Taxonomy
Sciadophora bostoni was named by McAlpine and Martin (1966). Its type specimen is CNC 9126, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (P. Boston collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Sciadophora.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1966 | Sciadophora bostoni McAlpine and Martin p. 530 figs. 1,3-8,20 |
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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.
†Sciadophora bostoni McAlpine and Martin 1966
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Middle Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Sciadophora bostoni (type locality: 122358) |