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Cyprinodon primulus
Taxonomy
Cyprinodon primulus was named by Cockerell (1936). Its type specimen is AMNH 24521, a dermal scale, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ranges east of Sierra Santa Barbara, which is in a Paleocene lacustrine - small mudstone in the Maíz Gordo Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1936 | Cyprinodon primulus Cockerell p. 3 fig. 1 |
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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.
†Cyprinodon primulus Cockerell 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Paleocene or 59.24000 to 56.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Paleocene | Argentina (Jujuy) | Cyprinodon primulus (type locality: 151867) |