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Siren hesterna (siren)
Taxonomy
Siren hesterna was named by Goin and Auffenberg (1955). Its type specimen is MCZ 2278, a set of vertebrae (posterior thoracic vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Thomas Farm, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1955 | Siren hesterna Goin and Auffenberg p. 504 fig. 1C |
| 1981 | Siren hesterna Estes |
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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.
†Siren hesterna Goin and Auffenberg 1955 [siren]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Hemingfordian or 20.43000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hemingfordian | USA (Florida) | Siren hesterna (type locality: 18597) |