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Heterodontus granti
Taxonomy
Heterodontus granti was named by Case and Cappetta (1997). Its type specimen is AMNH 12141, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South Sulphur River, Commerce, which is in a Maastrichtian marine claystone/sandstone in the Kemp Clay Formation of Texas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Heterodontus granti Case and Cappetta p. 135 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; pl 2, fig 1 |
| 2007 | Heterodontus granti Cicimurri p. 62 fig. 3.1 |
| 2017 | Heterodontus granti Case et al. p. 65 fig. 2D,E |
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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.
†Heterodontus granti Case and Cappetta 1997
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (South Carolina) | Heterodontus granti (79363) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | Heterodontus granti (type locality: 61738) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Carolina) | Heterodontus granti (241417) |