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Palaeophis virginianus
Taxonomy
Palaeophis virginianus was named by Lynn (1934). Its type specimen is USNM 13640 and 13541, a set of vertebrae (two posterior thoracic vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1934 | Palaeophis virginianus Lynn |
| 1984 | Palaeophis virginianus Rage p. 34 |
| 1988 | Palaeophis virginianus Holman and Case p. 331 |
| 1991 | Palaeophis virginianus Holman et al. p. 6 |
| 2003 | Palaeophis virginianus Parmley and Reed p. 224 |
| 2005 | Palaeophis virginianus Parmley and DeVore p. 711 |
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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.
†Palaeophis virginianus Lynn 1934
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Bambach et al. 2007, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Lutetian or 59.24000 to 41.03000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Thanetian | USA (Virginia) | Palaeophis virginianus (13186) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene | USA (Mississippi) | Palaeophis virginianus (161862) | |
| Wasatchian | USA (Mississippi) | Palaeophis virginianus (15719) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | USA (Mississippi) | Palaeophis virginianus (27622) | |
| Ypresian | USA (Virginia) | Palaeophis virginianus (15595) | |
| Lutetian | USA (Alabama) | Palaeophis virginianus (13346) |