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Larus lacus (gull)
Taxonomy
Larus lacus was named by Emslie (1995). Its type specimen is UF 140702, a limb element (right humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Richardson Road Shell Mine, which is in a Piacenzian lagoonal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Tamiami Formation of Florida.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Larus lacus Emslie p. 325 fig. 7 |
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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.
†Larus lacus Emslie 1995 [gull]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Piacenzian or 3.60000 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Larus lacus (type locality: 22712) |