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Catopygus mississippiensis
Taxonomy
Catopygus mississippiensis was named by Cooke (1953). Its type specimen is USNM 108379 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 6851, Houston, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate chalk in the Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation of Mississippi.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Catopygus mississippiensis Cooke p. 15 figs. Pl 5, figs 3-6 |
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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.
†Catopygus mississippiensis Cooke 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Mississippi) | Catopygus mississippiensis (4150 type locality: 78123) |