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Unuchinia asaphes
Taxonomy
Apator asaphes was named by Simpson (1936) ["genotype"]. Its type specimen is Amer. Mus. No. 33894, a mandible (left lower jaw with P4-M1 and alveoli), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Scarritt Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Melville Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Unuchinia, Apator.
It was recombined as Unuchinia asaphes by Simpson (1937), McKenna (1963) and Gunnell (1988).
It was recombined as Unuchinia asaphes by Simpson (1937), McKenna (1963) and Gunnell (1988).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Unuchinia asaphes Simpson 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Tanaka and Taruno 2019, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 |