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Purgatorius unio
Taxonomy
Purgatorius unio was named by Van Valen and Sloan (1965). Its type specimen is U.M. No. V.P.1597, a tooth (right [upper] M?2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Purgatory Hill, which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in the Tullock Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Purgatorius.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Purgatorius unio Van Valen and Sloan p. 744 |
| 1974 | Purgatorius unio Clemens p. 903 |
| 2016 | Purgatorius unio Scott et al. p. 345 |
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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.
†Purgatorius unio Van Valen and Sloan 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988 | |||||