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Cryptometoicoceras mite
Taxonomy
Cryptometoicoceras mite was named by Kennedy and Cobban (1990). Its type specimen is USNM 423766, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D4462, Black Hills, which is in a Cenomanian marine siliciclastic in the Greenhorn Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Cryptometoicoceras.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Cryptometoicoceras mite Kennedy and Cobban p. 412 figs. Pl 7, figs 21-27 |
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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.
†Cryptometoicoceras mite Kennedy and Cobban 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Cenomanian | USA (Montana) | Cryptometoicoceras mite (175421) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | USA (Wyoming) | Cryptometoicoceras mite (type locality: 167810) |