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Deltatheroides cretacicus
Taxonomy
Deltatheroides cretacicus was named by Gregory and Simpson (1926). Its type specimen is AMNH 21700, a partial skull (anterior part of a skull with C-M3, badly worn and broken), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Deltatheroides.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory and Simpson p. 11 fig. 7 |
| 1928 | Deltatheroides cretacicus Simpson p. 2 |
| 1979 | Deltatheroides cretacicus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 183 |
| 2004 | Deltatheroides cretacicus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 411, 446 |
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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.
†Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory and Simpson 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Deltatheroides cretacicus (type locality: 46152) |