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Culicoides megacanthus
Taxonomy
Culicoides megacanthus was named by Palmer (1957). Its type specimen is USNM 562003, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Cenozoic 19057, Mule Canyon, Calico Hills, which is in a Hemingfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Barstow Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1957 | Culicoides megacanthus Palmer p. 272 figs. Pl 34, fig 6; text-fig 100a-i |
| 1966 | Culicoides megacanthus Pierce p. 91 fig. 12,13 |
| 1997 | Culicoides megacanthus Borkent and Wirth p. 74 |
| 2013 | Culicoides megacanthus Borkent p. 90 |
| 2020 | Culicoides megacanthus Borkent and Dominiak p. 141 |
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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.
†Culicoides megacanthus Palmer 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Hemingfordian or 20.43000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hemingfordian | USA (California) | Culicoides megacanthus (106431 type locality: 123022 123030 123034 152222) |