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Nyktalos uhleri
Taxonomy
Nyctophylax uhleri was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 3517, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Nyctophylax, Nyktalos.
It was recombined as Nyktalos uhleri by Metcalf (1952), Szwedo et al. (2004).
It was recombined as Nyktalos uhleri by Metcalf (1952), Szwedo et al. (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1890 | Nyctophylax uhleri Scudder p. 279 figs. Pl 19 fig 11 |
| 1952 | Nyktalos uhleri Metcalf p. 230 |
| 2004 | Nyktalos uhleri Szwedo et al. p. 54 |
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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.
†Nyktalos uhleri Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| thorax height | 1 | 7.00 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | Nyctophylax uhleri (type locality: 106384) |