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Pachycheles
Taxonomy
Pachycheles was named by Stimpson (1858). It is extant. 
It was assigned to Porcellanidae by Rathbun (1918), Schweitzer et al. (2010), De Angeli and Ceccon (2017), Luque et al. (2017), Beschin et al. (2018), Schweitzer et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Porcellanidae by Rathbun (1918), Schweitzer et al. (2010), De Angeli and Ceccon (2017), Luque et al. (2017), Beschin et al. (2018), Schweitzer et al. (2023).
  Species
  
  Species lacking formal opinion data
  
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author | 
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| 1858 | Pachycheles Stimpson | 
| 1862 | Pisosoma Stimpson | 
| 1918 | Pachycheles Rathbun p. 134 | 
| 2010 | Pachycheles Schweitzer et al. p. 51 | 
| 2017 | Pachycheles De Angeli and Ceccon p. 18 | 
| 2017 | Pachycheles Luque et al. p. 29 | 
| 2018 | Pachycheles Beschin et al. p. 146 | 
| 2023 | Pachycheles Schweitzer et al. p. 21 | 
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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.
G. Pachycheles Stimpson 1858
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   †Pachycheles cristatus Beschin et al. 2018
   †Pachycheles dorsosulcatus Beschin et al. 2007
   Pachycheles granti Haig 1965
   †Pachycheles latus Rathbun 1918
   †Pachycheles multituberculatus Beschin et al. 2018
   Pachycheles riisei Stimpson 1859
   †Pachycheles semiornatus Beschin et al. 2018
   Pachycheles stevensii Stimpson 1858
  Invalid names: Pisosoma Stimpson 1862 [synonym]
  
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Turnsek 1997, Aberhan 1992, Valdez and Clapham 2023 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils:  base of the Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number | 
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| Ypresian | Italy | P. dorsosulcatus (140158 226528) | |
| Priabonian | Italy | P. cristatus, P. multituberculatus, P. semiornatus (207550) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | Costa Rica | P. stevensii (124270) | |
| Piacenzian - Gelasian | Costa Rica | P. latus (135452) | |
| Holocene | USA (Virgin Islands) | Pisosoma riisei (146588) | |
| Holocene | USA (California) | P. rudis (146590 146591) | |
| Holocene | USA (Califormia) | P. rudis (146589) |