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Dentalium giganteum
Taxonomy
Dentalium giganteum was named by Sowerby (1846) [DISTRIBUTION: Eocene; Argentina.]. It is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
D. angulare, D. callipeplum, D. dijki, D. elongatum, D. entale, D. gabbi, D. inornatum, D. intercalatum, D. kickxi, D. majus, D. marwicki, D. matanzasense, D. mediaviense, D. michelotti, D. morganianum, D. octogonum, D. oerstedi, D. opaculum, D. palmerae, D. paulini, D. regulare, D. sexangulum, D. sublineatum, D. thalloides, D. uscarinanum, D. varicostata, D. vitreum, D. weinkauffi, D. arciforme, D. chipolanum, D. diopon, D. ewekoroense, D. palmerae, D. thalloides, D. thaloides, D. nunomae, D. bothrum, D. equisetum, D. nanaimoense, D. sulcosum, D. buricum, D. amaliense, D. guineense, D. multistrictum, D. nigeriense, D. regulare
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Dentalium giganteum Sowerby p. 263 figs. pl. 2, fig. 1 |
| 2000 | Dentalium giganteum Camacho et al. p. 64 |
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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.
†Dentalium giganteum Sowerby 1846
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Middle Eocene or 47.80000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | Argentina | Dentalium giganteum (71613) |