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Palaeosinopa dorri
Taxonomy
Palaeosinopa dorri was named by Gingerich (1980). Its type specimen is UM 55122, a partial skull (partial cranium with nearly complete upper dentition), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dell Creek Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Hoback Formation of Wyoming.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1980 | Palaeosinopa dorri Gingerich p. 451 |
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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.
†Palaeosinopa dorri Gingerich 1980
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Tiffanian or 59.24000 to 56.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tiffanian | USA (Wyoming) | Palaeosinopa simpsoni (type locality: 14944) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (Wyoming) | Palaeosinopa dorri (15024) |