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Apalone amorense
Taxonomy
Apalone amorense was named by Valdes et al. (2017). Its type specimen is UF 43069, a shell (Nearly complete carapace (a right hyoplastron, UF 246380 may represent part of the same individual)), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Love Bone Bed, which is in a Clarendonian marginal marine horizon in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Apalone amorense Valdes et al. p. 121 figs. 2-7 |
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†Apalone amorense Valdes et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| N. Valdes et al. 2017 | Apalone amorense shares with other species of Apalone high variability in the location of the posteriormost neural reversal and the location of the reversal, which often occurs at N5 Apalone amorense is distinguished from other Apalone by costal contact at the midline posterior to N6, permanent loss of C8, and potentially greater interorbital width. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Clarendonian or 12.50000 to 9.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | Trionyx ferox (type locality: 18554) |