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Leptalestes cooki
Taxonomy
Pediomys cooki was named by Clemens (1966). Its type specimen is UCMP 47738, a maxilla (right fragmentary maxilla with P3 and M1-3), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Bushy Tailed Blowout, which is in a Lancian terrestrial shale in the Lance Formation of Wyoming.
It was recombined as Leptalestes cooki by Davis (2007) and Wilson et al. (2010).
It was recombined as Leptalestes cooki by Davis (2007) and Wilson et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1966 | Pediomys cooki Clemens |
1979 | Pediomys cooki Clemens p. 193 |
2004 | Pediomys cooki Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 443, 457 |
2007 | Leptalestes cooki Davis p. 241 |
2010 | Leptalestes cooki Wilson et al. p. 513 |
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†Leptalestes cooki Clemens 1966
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available