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Archelon marshii
Taxonomy
Archelon marshii was named by Wieland (1900). Its type specimen is YPM 294, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is east side, Cheyenne River, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in the Pierre Shale Formation of South Dakota.
It was recombined as Protostega marshii by Wieland (1909).
It was recombined as Protostega marshii by Wieland (1909).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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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.
†Archelon marshii Wieland 1900
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Uetz 2005, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||