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Cantioscyllium meyeri
Taxonomy
Cantioscyllium meyeri was named by Case and Cappetta (1997). Its type specimen is AMNH 13712, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South Sulphur River, Commerce, which is in a Maastrichtian marine claystone/sandstone in the Kemp Clay Formation of Texas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2020-08-28; modified by M. Clapham on 2025-11-03
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Cantioscyllium meyeri Case and Cappetta p. 136 figs. Pl 6, figs 5-7 |
| 1999 | Cantioscyllium meyeri Cappetta and Case p. 29 figs. Pl 17, figs 1-5 |
| 2007 | Cantioscyllium meyeri Cicimurri p. 62 figs. 3.2-3.5 |
| 2017 | Cantioscyllium meyeri Case et al. p. 65 fig. 2F |
| 2017 | Cantioscyllium meyeri Schubert et al. p. 10 figs. 3-7-3.20 |
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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.
†Cantioscyllium meyeri Case and Cappetta 1997
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Texas) | Cantioscyllium meyeri (213303) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (South Carolina) | Cantioscyllium meyeri (79363) | |
| Middle Campanian | USA (Texas) | Cantioscyllium meyeri (240801) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Carolina) | Cantioscyllium meyeri (241417) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | Cantioscyllium meyeri (type locality: 61738) |