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Taxonomy
Thalassoleon macnallyae was named by Repenning and Tedford (1977). Its type specimen is UCMP 112809, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Drakes Beach, which is in a Messinian open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Drakes Bay Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Thalassoleon macnallyae Repenning and Tedford |
| 2003 | Thalassoleon macnallyae Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2005 | Thalassoleon macnallyae Deméré and Berta p. 382 |
| 2008 | Thalassoleon macnallyae Barnes p. 530 |
| 2015 | Thalassoleon macnallyae Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Thalassoleon macnallyae Berta et al. p. 215 figs. Fig. 5 |
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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.
†Thalassoleon macnallyae Repenning and Tedford 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Gingerich 2003, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Piacenzian or 7.24600 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Messinian | USA (California) | Thalassoleon macnallyae (type locality: 59162 152070 152071) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Thalassoleon macnallyae (152072) |