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Petrimordella priscula
Taxonomy
Mordella priscula was named by Cockerell (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 69183, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Salt Wash, Roan Mountains, station 2, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Colorado.
It was recombined as Petrimordella priscula by Batelka et al. (2023).
It was recombined as Petrimordella priscula by Batelka et al. (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Mordella priscula Cockerell p. 11 figs. Pl 1, fig 7 |
| 2023 | Petrimordella priscula Batelka et al. p. 474 |
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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.
†Petrimordella priscula Cockerell 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Bridgerian or 50.50000 to 46.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bridgerian | USA (Colorado) | Mordella priscula (type locality: 122749) |