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Comodon gidleyi
Taxonomy
Phascolodon gidleyi was named by Simpson (1925). Its type specimen is USNM 2703, a mandible (partial left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Phascolodon.
It was recombined as Phascolotheridium gidleyi by Cifelli and Dykes (2001); it was recombined as Comodon gidleyi by Kretzoi and Kretzoi (2000), Cifelli (2002) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).
It was recombined as Phascolotheridium gidleyi by Cifelli and Dykes (2001); it was recombined as Comodon gidleyi by Kretzoi and Kretzoi (2000), Cifelli (2002) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1925 | Phascolodon gidleyi Simpson |
| 1929 | Phascolodon gidleyi Simpson p. 31 |
| 1930 | Phascolodon gidleyi Hay p. 370 |
| 1979 | Phascolodon gidleyi Jenkins and Crompton p. 75 |
| 2000 | Comodon gidleyi Kretzoi and Kretzoi |
| 2001 | Phascolotheridium gidleyi Cifelli and Dykes |
| 2002 | Comodon gidleyi Cifelli p. 184 |
| 2004 | Comodon gidleyi Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 219, 237-238 |
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†Comodon gidleyi Simpson 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available