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Cretonomyia pristina
Taxonomy
Cretonomyia pristina was named by McAlpine (1973). Its type specimen is CAS 250 (CNC 12920), an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (CNC 1963 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada. It is the type species of Cretonomyia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Cretonomyia pristina McAlpine p. 106 figs. 1,3-16 |
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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.
†Cretonomyia pristina McAlpine 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Manitoba) | Cretonomyia pristina (type locality: 122353) |