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Platacodon nanus
Taxonomy
Platacodon nanus was named by Marsh (1889). It is not extant. Its type locality is Peterson's Quarry, which is in a Lancian terrestrial horizon in the Lance Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Platacodon.
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.
†Platacodon nanus Marsh 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bryant 1989, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Lancian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (New Mexico) | Platacodon nanus (36543) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Canada (Alberta) | Platacodon nanus (14502) | |
| Lancian | USA (South Dakota) | Platacodon nanus (14537 192251) | |
| Lancian | Canada (Alberta) | Platacodon nanus (14631) | |
| Lancian | USA (Montana) | Platacodon nanus (14549 14568 144499) | |
| Lancian | USA (Wyoming) | Platacodon nanus (14514 14519 14570 14590 type locality: 14606) | |
| Lancian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Platacodon nanus (14655) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Montana) | Platacodon nanus (13142) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Wyoming) | Platacodon nanus (14585) |