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Phenacodus bisonensis
Taxonomy
Phenacodus bisonensis was named by Gazin (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 20564, a maxilla, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Saddle, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in Wyoming.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Phenacodus bisonensis Gazin pp. 44-45 |
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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.
†Phenacodus bisonensis Gazin 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Archibald 1998 | |||||
Age range: base of the Torrejonian to the top of the Tiffanian or 63.40000 to 57.50000 Ma
Collections (17 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Torrejonian | USA (Texas) | Phenacodus matthewi (14956) Tetraclaenodon puercensis (14948) | |
| Ti1 | USA (Montana) | Phenacodus bisonensis (15026) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (California) | Phenacodus bisonensis (143202 154724 224203 224204 224210 224211 224212 224213 224214 224215) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (Texas) | Phenacodus sp. (14975) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (Wyoming) | Phenacodus bisonensis (14964 type locality: 14989) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (Montana) | Phenacodus bisonensis (15025) |