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Wisslerius sardinelloides
Taxonomy
Wisslerius sardinelloides was named by David (1946). Its type specimen is CIT 10322, a dermal scale, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Seaboard Oil Corp., Welch No. 1, which is in an Eocene/Eocene marine shale in the Kreyenhagen Formation of California. It is the type species of Wisslerius.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1946 | Wisslerius sardinelloides David p. 53 figs. 2a-d |
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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.
†Wisslerius sardinelloides David 1946
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 47.80000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | USA (California) | Wisslerius sardinelloides (type locality: 191013 191015 191016) |