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Litzicurus orbus
Taxonomy
Pseudohystricurus orbus was named by Ross (1953) [Paratypes: YPM 18780-3.]. Its type specimen is YPM 18779, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 6, Hillyard's Canyon, recollection of basal "G(1)" zone, which is in a Tulean shallow subtidal horizon in the Garden City Formation of Idaho.
It was recombined as Litzicurus orbus by Adrain et al. (2009).
It was recombined as Litzicurus orbus by Adrain et al. (2009).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Pseudohystricurus orbus Ross p. 639 figs. PL. 63, figs. 10, 15, 16 |
| 2009 | Litzicurus orbus Adrain et al. p. 593 |
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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.
†Litzicurus orbus Ross 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||