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Raja farishi
Taxonomy
Raja farishi was named by Case and Cappetta (1997). Its type specimen is AMNH 12177, 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 | Raja farishi Case and Cappetta p. 147 figs. Pl 10, figs 1-4; text-fig 7 |
| 2006 | Raja farishi Becker et al. p. 709 fig. 4.25.4.29 |
| 2017 | Raja farishi Case et al. p. 72 fig. 4B |
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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.
†Raja farishi Case and Cappetta 1997
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | Raja farishi (type locality: 61738) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Carolina) | Raja farishi (241417) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Arkansas) | Raja farishi (242204) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (Maryland) | Raja farishi (83331) |