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Cavia galileoi
Taxonomy
Cavia galileoi was named by Verzi and Quintana (2005). Its type specimen is MACN 19721 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Isabel, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in the San Andres Formation of Argentina.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Carrillo (authorized by C. Jaramillo) on 2018-03-14
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Cavia galileoi Verzi and Quintana p. 306 fig. 4 |
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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.
†Cavia galileoi Verzi and Quintana 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Lujanian or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Cavia galileoi (type locality: 123525) | |
| Lujanian | Argentina (Entre Ríos) | Cavia galileoi (212840) |