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Taxidea taxus marylandica
Taxonomy
Taxidea marylandica was named by Gidley and Gazin (1933). Its type specimen is USNM 7990, a partial skeleton (skull, jaws, eleven vertebrate, and proximal half of the right humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cumberland Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Maryland.
It was recombined as Taxidea taxus marylandica by Long (1964); it was synonymized subjectively with Taxidea taxus by Hall (1936), Hall and Kelson (1959) and Kurten and Anderson (1980).
It was recombined as Taxidea taxus marylandica by Long (1964); it was synonymized subjectively with Taxidea taxus by Hall (1936), Hall and Kelson (1959) and Kurten and Anderson (1980).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Taxidea marylandica Gidley and Gazin p. 352 |
| 1938 | Taxidea marylandica Gidley and Gazin |
| 1964 | Taxidea taxus marylandica Long p. 179 |
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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.
†Taxidea taxus marylandica Gidley and Gazin 1933
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available