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Pterosphenus schucherti
Taxonomy
Pterosphenus schucherti was named by Lucas (1898). Its type specimen is USNM 4047, a set of vertebrae (consists of about 40 vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Melvin, southeast of, which is in a Priabonian marginal marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Yazoo Formation of Alabama. It is the type species of Pterosphenus.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1898 | Pterosphenus schucherti Lucas |
1902 | Pterosphenus schucherti Hay p. 479 |
1930 | Pterosphenus schucherti Hay p. 267 |
1981 | Pterosphenus schucherti Thurmond and Jones p. 163 |
1981 | Pterosphenus schucherti Westgate and Ward p. 161 |
1991 | Pterosphenus schucherti Holman et al. p. 6 |
2003 | Pterosphenus schucherti Parmley and Reed p. 224 |
2005 | Pterosphenus schucherti Parmley and DeVore p. 714 |
2008 | Pterosphenus schucherti Rage et al. p. 394 |
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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.
†Pterosphenus schucherti Lucas 1898
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Holman 2000 |
Age range: base of the Thanetian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 59.20000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (17 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Thanetian | USA (New Jersey) | Pterosphenus schucherti (124965) | |
Late/Upper Uintan | USA (Texas) | Pterosphenus schucherti (16542) | |
Bartonian | USA (South Carolina) | Pterosphenus schucherti (134300) | |
Bartonian | USA (Louisiana) | Pterosphenus schucherti (3534) | |
Priabonian | USA (Arkansas) | Pterosphenus schucherti (16549 45641) | |
Priabonian | USA (South Carolina) | Pterosphenus schucherti (32908 206946) | |
Priabonian | USA (Louisiana) | Pterosphenus schucherti (55251 75638) | |
Priabonian | USA (Georgia) | Pterosphenus schucherti (45640) Pterosphenus schucherti, Palaeophis virginianus (27508) | |
Priabonian | USA (Alabama) | Pterosphenus schucherti (type locality: 28983) | |
Priabonian | USA (Mississippi) | Pterosphenus schucherti (6802) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Louisiana) | Pterosphenus schucherti (27623) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Mississippi) | Pterosphenus schucherti (162733) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Florida) | Pterosphenus schucherti (27641) |