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Quaesita alhambrae

Actinopteri - Argentiniformes - Microstomatidae

Taxonomy
Quaesita alhambrae was named by Jordan and Gilbert (1920). Its type specimen is Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 198, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Alhambra, which is in a Miocene marine shale in California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Quaesita alhambrae Jordan and Gilbert p. 43 figs. Plate XXVIII
2012Quaesita alhambrae Fierstine et al. p. 41

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
RankNameAuthor
—Teleosteomorpha
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
—Teleocephalade Pinna 1996
—ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
—Euteleosteomorpha
superorderProtacanthopterygii
orderArgentiniformes
familyMicrostomatidae
genusQuaesita
speciesalhambrae

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.

†Quaesita alhambrae Jordan and Gilbert 1920
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2004-08-17 14:52:40
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:42
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
Reference: Carroll 1988

Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333USA (California) Quaesita alhambrae (type locality: 185679)