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Adocus orientalis
Taxonomy
Adocus orientalis was named by Gilmore (1931). Its type specimen is AMNH 6356, a partial shell (nearly complete anterior half of the plastron), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ergil Obo (Ergilin Dzo sublocality), which is in an Eocene terrestrial sandstone in the Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1931 | Adocus orientalis Gilmore pp. 220-221 fig. 2 |
| 1963 | Adocus orientalis Yeh |
| 2008 | Adocus orientalis Brinkman et al. p. 63 |
| 2011 | Adocus orientalis Danilov et al. p. 118 |
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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.
†Adocus orientalis Gilmore 1931
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Estes et al. 1969, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 47.80000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | Mongolia | Adocus orientalis (127656) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Inner Mongolia) | Adocus orientalis (178831) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | Mongolia (Dornogov) | Adocus orientalis (type locality: 174972) |