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Bothremys cooki
Taxonomy
Bothremys cookii was named by Leidy (1865) [type was originally Rutgers University 1.KV-6 141, 142]. Its type specimen is AMNH 2521, a skull (skull and jaws), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is West Jersey Marl Company's Pit, Barnsboro (Navesink), which is in a Maastrichtian marginal marine sandstone in the Navesink Formation of New Jersey. It is the type species of Bothremys.
It was corrected as Bothremys cooki by Leidy (1865), Hay (1908), Gaffney et al. (2006), Gaffney et al. (2009), Rabi et al. (2012) and Noto et al. (2022).
It was corrected as Bothremys cooki by Leidy (1865), Hay (1908), Gaffney et al. (2006), Gaffney et al. (2009), Rabi et al. (2012) and Noto et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1865 | Bothremys cooki Leidy p. 110 figs. Figs 4-8, Plate 18 |
| 1865 | Bothremys cookii Leidy p. 110 figs. Figs 4-8, Plate XVIII |
| 1902 | Bothremys cookii Hay p. 438 |
| 1908 | Bothremys cooki Hay p. 103 figs. Plate 23, figs. I, 3; text-figs. 96, 97 |
| 1930 | Bothremys cookii Hay p. 74 |
| 2006 | Bothremys cooki Gaffney et al. p. 80 |
| 2009 | Bothremys cooki Gaffney et al. p. 2 |
| 2012 | Bothremys cooki Rabi et al. p. 665 |
| 2022 | Bothremys cooki Noto et al. p. 3 |
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†Bothremys cooki Leidy 1865
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. S. Gaffney et al. 2006 | A member of the genus Bothremys with the following unique features: triturating pit formed entirely by widely exposed jugal; small jugal exposure in orbital rim; elongate vomer with wide maxilla contact; midline concavity formed by premaxilla and vomer elongate and narrow; apertura narium interna opens more posteriorly than in other species. Other distinguishing features: ventral rim of orbit without distinct margin, in contrast to B. kellyi and B. arabicus; postorbital-palatine not in contact in posterior surface of septum orbitotemporale, in contrast to B. maghrebiana; jugal prevents maxilla-palatine contact posterior to pit, in contrast to B. maghrebiana; lower jaws wider than in B. maghrebiana. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005 | |||||
Age range: base of the Maastrichtian to the top of the Middle Campanian or 72.10000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (New Jersey) | Bothremys cooki (88610) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian | USA (North Carolina) | Bothremys cooki (57918 129825) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (New Jersey) | Bothremys cookii (type locality: 81999) |