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Globidens alabamensis
Taxonomy
Globidens alabamensis was named by Gilmore (1912). Its type specimen is USNM 6527, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bogue Chitto prairies, which is in a Campanian marginal marine chalk in the Mooreville Chalk Formation of Alabama. It is the type species of Globidens.
It was corrected as Globidens alabamaensis by Russell (1967), Thurmond (1969) and Bardet et al. (2005).
It was corrected as Globidens alabamaensis by Russell (1967), Thurmond (1969) and Bardet et al. (2005).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1912 | Globidens alabamensis Gilmore |
| 1930 | Globidens alabamensis Hay p. 265 |
| 1967 | Globidens alabamaensis Russell p. 144 |
| 1969 | Globidens alabamaensis Thurmond p. 71 |
| 1970 | Globidens alabamensis Russell p. 373 |
| 1981 | Globidens alabamaensis Thurmond and Jones p. 156 |
| 2005 | Globidens alabamaensis Bardet et al. p. 169 |
| 2014 | Globidens alabamensis Fanti et al. |
| 2019 | Globidens alabamensis Driscoll et al. |
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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.
†Globidens alabamensis Gilmore 1912
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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, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Gervais 1852, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Campanian to the top of the Campanian or 83.50000 to 72.10000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Alabama) | Globidens alabamensis (81972) | |
| Campanian | USA (South Dakota) | Globidens alabamaensis (107671) | |
| Campanian | USA (Delaware) | Globidens alabamaensis (167538) | |
| Middle Campanian | USA (Alabama) | Globidens alabamensis (type locality: 97636) |