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Desmatophoca brachycephala
Taxonomy
Desmatophoca brachycephala was named by Barnes (1987). Its type specimen is LACM 120199, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Knappton, east, which is in an Aquitanian marine horizon in the Astoria Formation of Washington.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1987 | Desmatophoca brachycephala Barnes p. 6 figs. Figures 2-8, 9b |
| 1989 | Desmatophoca brachycephala Barnes p. 23 |
| 2003 | Desmatophoca brachycephala Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2008 | Desmatophoca brachycephala Barnes p. 530 |
| 2018 | Desmatophoca brachycephala Berta et al. p. 205 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 2018 | Desmatophoca brachycephala Boessenecker and Churchill p. 19 figs. Table 9 |
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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.
†Desmatophoca brachycephala Barnes 1987
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Gingerich 2003, Carreño and Cronin 1993 | |||||
Age range: Aquitanian or 23.04000 to 20.45000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aquitanian | USA (Washington) | Desmatophoca brachycephala (type locality: 59066) |