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Kelidus bolbus
Taxonomy
Buprestium bolbus was named by Westwood (1854). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection], which is in a Berriasian fluvial-lacustrine limestone in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Kelidus.
It was recombined as Kelidus bolbus by Handlirsch (1906), Kirejtshuk et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Kelidus bolbus by Handlirsch (1906), Kirejtshuk et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1854 | Buprestium bolbus Westwood pp. 386, 395 figs. Pl 17 fig 5 |
| 1906 | Kelidus bolbus Handlirsch p. 556 figs. Pl XlV fig 46 |
| 2016 | Kelidus bolbus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 147 |
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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.
†Kelidus bolbus Westwood 1854
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Berriasian or 143.10000 to 137.05000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Buprestium bolbus (type locality: 127481) |