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Agaleorhynchus britannicus
Taxonomy
Agaleorhynchus britannicus was named by Guinot et al. (2012). Its type specimen is NHMUK P.66972, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Winterbourne, lower horizon, which is in a Santonian carbonate chalk in the Newhaven Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Agaleorhynchus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Agaleorhynchus britannicus Guinot et al. p. 464 figs. 8F-P |
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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.
†Agaleorhynchus britannicus Guinot et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 85.70000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian | United Kingdom (England) | Agaleorhynchus britannicus (type locality: 213377) | |
| Middle Santonian | United Kingdom (England) | Agaleorhynchus britannicus (213380) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | United Kingdom (England) | Agaleorhynchus britannicus (213379) |