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Casterolimulus kletti
Taxonomy
Casterolimulus kletti was named by Holland et al. (1975). Its type specimen is USNM 206801, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Highway 83 north of Linton, which is in a Maastrichtian estuary/bay siltstone in the Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota. It is the type species of Casterolimulus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Casterolimulus kletti Holland et al. p. 237 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; pl 2, fig 1; text-fig 3 |
| 2020 | Casterolimulus kletti Lamsdell p. 24 |
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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.
†Casterolimulus kletti Holland et al. 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Bambach et al. 2007 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Dakota) | Casterolimulus kletti (type locality: 216569) |