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Culicoides obuncus
Taxonomy
Culicoides obuncus was named by Borkent (1995). Its type specimen is MCZ 9023, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (MCZ collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Culicoides obuncus Borkent p. 64 fig. 12 |
| 1997 | Culicoides obuncus Borkent and Wirth p. 76 |
| 2013 | Culicoides obuncus Borkent p. 93 |
| 2018 | Culicoides obuncus Szadziewski p. 224 |
| 2020 | Culicoides obuncus 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 obuncus Borkent 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Manitoba) | Culicoides obuncus (122353 type locality: 122354 122356) | |
| Middle Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Culicoides obuncus (122384) |