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Purtia mosaicus
Taxonomy
Purtia mosaicus was named by Case (1984). Its type specimen is SAM P17873, a mandible (left mandible fragment with most of the ventral and posterior portions of the jaw missing.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP Locality V-5774, which is in an Oligocene fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Etadunna Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Purtia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1984 | Purtia mosaicus Case p. 1075 fig. 2 |
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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.
†Purtia mosaicus Case 1984
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hopson 1973, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Purtia mosaicus (type locality: 135689) |