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Acteon merriami
Taxonomy
Actaeon merriami was named by Waring (1917). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Southwest of Santa Susana, which is in a Danian transition zone/lower shoreface sandstone in the Las Virgenes Formation of California.
It was recombined as Acteon merriami by Nelson (1925).
It was recombined as Acteon merriami by Nelson (1925).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. bathurstensis, A. claibornicola, A. conicus, A. costellatus, A. curtus, A. danicus, A. ellipticus, A. eoantarcticus, A. menthafons, A. meyeri, A. petricolus, A. pomilis, A. procraterioulatus, A. punctatus, A. quercus, A. semispiralis, A. subaldrichi, A. substriatus, A. tornantilis, A. wangaloa, A. tampae
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.
†Acteon merriami Waring 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Thanetian or 70.60000 to 56.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (California) | Actaeon merriami (192814) | |
| Danian | USA (California) | Actaeon merriami (type locality: 193035) | |
| Thanetian | USA (California) | Acteon merriami (239615) |