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Anchura baptos
Taxonomy
Anchura baptos was named by Elder and Saul (1996). Its type specimen is USNM 485427, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS M5906, Dip Creek, which is in a Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. americana, A. bakeri, A. besairiei, A. bexarensis, A. catedralis, A. chapelvillensis, A. coffea, A. corniculata, A. denticulata, A. glabra, A. grouti, A. hopii, A. lamari, A. marginata, A. modesta, A. noakensis, A. parkinsoni, A. pergracilis, A. raritanensis, A. robinaldina, A. rostrata, A. schweinfurthi, A. sucrensis, A. turricula, A. whitneyensis, A. zululandiae, A. quadrilirata, A. bailyi, A. robinaldina
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Anchura baptos Elder and Saul p. 394 figs. 6.5, 6.6 |
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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.
†Anchura baptos Elder and Saul 1996
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Danian or 72.20000 to 61.66000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (California) | Anchura baptos (185188 type locality: 185190) | |
| Danian | USA (California) | Anchura baptos (185189) |