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Polyglyphanodon sternbergi
Taxonomy
Polyglyphanodon sternbergi was named by Gilmore (1940). Its type specimen is USNM 15477, a partial skeleton (skull, jaws and most of the postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South Dragon Canyon, "lizard locality", which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the North Horn Formation of Utah.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Gilmore pp. 1-2 fig. 1 |
| 1942 | Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Gilmore p. 230 |
| 1983 | Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Estes p. 76 figs. 15, 18 |
| 1991 | Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Gao and Fox |
| 2012 | Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Longrich et al. |
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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.
†Polyglyphanodon sternbergi Gilmore 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Evans and Manabe 2008, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Utah) | Lacertilia indet. (type locality: 45721) |