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Protictis simpsoni
Taxonomy
Protictis simpsoni was named by Meehan and Wilson (2002). Its type specimen is KUVP 7800, a skull (crushed skull with posterior cranium missing plus left and right rami), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Big Pocket, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial siltstone in the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2002 | Protictis simpsoni Meehan and Wilson |
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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.
†Protictis simpsoni Meehan and Wilson 2002
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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, Flynn 1998, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Torrejonian or 63.40000 to 60.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Torrejonian | USA (New Mexico) | Didymictis sp. a (type locality: 14816) |