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Petrolisthes avitus
Taxonomy
Petrolisthes avitus was named by Rathbun (1918). Its type specimen is USNM 324266 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 4269, Port Limon, which is in a Piacenzian/Gelasian marine siliciclastic in the Moin Formation of Costa Rica.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Petrolisthes avitus Rathbun |
| 2010 | Petrolisthes avitus Schweitzer et al. p. 51 |
| 2017 | Petrolisthes avitus Luque et al. p. 29 |
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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.
†Petrolisthes avitus Rathbun 1918
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan 1992, Valdez and Clapham 2023, Turnsek 1997 | |||||
Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Gelasian or 3.60000 to 1.80600 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Piacenzian - Gelasian | Costa Rica | Petrolisthes avitus (type locality: 135452) |