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Taxonomy
Heterosminthus mongoliensis was named by Zazhigin and Lopatin (2000). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ulaan Tologoi, UTO-A/5, which is in a Miocene fluvial sandstone in the Loh Formation of Mongolia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Heterosminthus mongoliensis Zazhigin and Lopatin |
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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.
†Heterosminthus mongoliensis Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: MN 3 or 20.00000 to 16.90000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Mongolia (Bayankhongor) | Heterosminthus mongoliensis (135788) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mongolia | Heterosminthus mongoliensis (type locality: 85060) | |
| MN 3 | China (Xinjiang) | Heterosminthus mongoliensis (125716) |