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Teleoceras fossiger
Taxonomy
Aphelops fossiger was named by Cope (1878). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Long Island Quarry, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Ogallala Formation of Kansas.
It was recombined as Teleoceras fossiger by Osborn (1898), Hay (1902), Cope and Matthew (1915), Matthew (1918), Skinner et al. (1968), Prothero and Manning (1987), Prothero (2005).
It was recombined as Teleoceras fossiger by Osborn (1898), Hay (1902), Cope and Matthew (1915), Matthew (1918), Skinner et al. (1968), Prothero and Manning (1987), Prothero (2005).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1878 | Aphelops fossiger Cope p. 382 |
| 1887 | Aceratherium acutum Marsh |
| 1890 | Aphelops fossiger Scott and Osborn p. 92 |
| 1894 | Aphelops fossiger Hatcher p. 241 fig. 1a |
| 1896 | Aphelops fossiger Leidy and Lucas p. 41 |
| 1898 | Teleoceras fossiger Osborn |
| 1902 | Teleoceras fossiger Hay p. 646 |
| 1915 | Teleoceras fossiger Cope and Matthew pp. Plate CXXXI |
| 1918 | Teleoceras fossiger Matthew |
| 1968 | Teleoceras fossiger Skinner et al. |
| 1987 | Teleoceras fossiger Prothero and Manning |
| 2005 | Teleoceras fossiger Prothero p. 113 |
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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.
†Teleoceras fossiger Cope 1878
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Invalid names: Aceratherium acutum Marsh 1887 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Prothero 1998, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Blancan or 11.63000 to 1.40000 Ma
Collections (32 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | USA (Oregon) | Teleoceras fossiger (19089) | |
| Miocene | USA (New Mexico) | Teleoceras fossiger (19337) | |
| Miocene | USA (Nevada) | Teleoceras fossiger (18841 18858) | |
| Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Kansas) | Teleoceras fossiger (110829) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Kansas) | Teleoceras fossiger (18462) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Texas) | Teleoceras fossiger (18072 18198) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Aphelops fossiger (216990) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Oklahoma) | Teleoceras fossiger (18034) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | Teleoceras fossiger (18158 18225) Teleoceras sp. (18441) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | Teleoceras sp. (18718) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Kansas) | Teleoceras fossiger (type locality: 18237 18263 18497) Teleoceras major (18415) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Nevada) | Teleoceras sp. (19095) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Jalisco) | Teleoceras fossiger (189788 189790 232513) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Hidalgo) | Teleoceras fossiger (212307) | |
| Hemphillian | Mexico (Nayarit) | Teleoceras fossiger (212338 212339) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | Teleoceras sp. (18126) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Nevada) | Teleoceras fossiger (75859) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | Mexico (Guanajuato) | Teleoceras fossiger (18713) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (California) | Teleoceras fossiger (19582) | |
| early Early Hemphillian - late Early Hemphillian | USA (Idaho) | Teleoceras fossiger (218109 218111) | |
| Blancan | Mexico (Hidalgo) | Teleoceras fossiger (20079) |