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Selmasaurus russelli
Taxonomy
Selmasaurus russelli was named by Wright and Shannon (1988). Its type specimen is GSATC 221, a skull, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Selmasaurus russelli type locality, which is in a Santonian/Campanian marine horizon in the Mooreville Chalk Formation of Alabama.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Selmasaurus russelli Wright and Shannon p. 102 figs. Fig. 1-5 |
| 2008 | Selmasaurus russelli Polcyn and Everhart p. 14 |
| 2019 | Selmasaurus russelli 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.
†Selmasaurus russelli Wright and Shannon 1988
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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 Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 85.80000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Alabama) | Selmasaurus russelli (type locality: 84188) |