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Taxonomy
Neurankylus wyomingensis was named by Gilmore (1919). Its type specimen is USNM 7581, a carapace (posterior half of shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shoshone River, near Cody, which is in an Albian terrestrial shale in the Thermopolis Shale Formation of Wyoming.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Gaffney (1972); it was recombined as Protobaena wyomingensis by Joyce and Lyson (2015).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Gaffney (1972); it was recombined as Protobaena wyomingensis by Joyce and Lyson (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1919 | Neurankylus wyomingensis Gilmore p. 113 figs. Pl. 29-30 |
| 1930 | Neurankylus wyomingensis Hay p. 71 |
| 2015 | Protobaena wyomingensis Joyce and Lyson |
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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.
†Protobaena wyomingensis Gilmore 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||