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Plioplatecarpus marshi
Taxonomy
Plioplatecarpus marshi was named by Dollo (1882). Its type specimen is MNHN AC 9649-9775, a set of vertebrae (127 vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is ENCI-Maastricht B.V. quarry (Nekum), which is in a Maastrichtian shallow subtidal chalk in the Maastricht Formation of the Netherlands.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Plioplatecarpus marshi Dollo |
| 1909 | Plioplatecarpus marshi Dollo p. 105 |
| 1967 | Plioplatecarpus marshi Russell p. 123 |
| 2019 | Plioplatecarpus marshi Driscoll et al. |
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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.
†Plioplatecarpus marshi Dollo 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Gervais 1852, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Netherlands (Limburg) | Plioplatecarpus marshi (type locality: 138726) |