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Tapocyon dawsonae
Taxonomy
Tapocyon dawsonae was named by Wesley and Flynn (2003). Its type specimen is SDSNH 35221. Its type locality is Jeff's Discovery, which is in an Uintan terrestrial siliciclastic in the Santiago Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2003 | Tapocyon dawsonae Wesley and Flynn |
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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.
†Tapocyon dawsonae Wesley and Flynn 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Uintan or 45.90000 to 39.70000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Uintan | USA (California) | Tapocyon occidentalis (type locality: 16585) |