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Gavia concinna

Reptilia - Gaviidae

Taxonomy
Gavia concinna was named by Wetmore (1940). Its type specimen is USNM 16160, a limb element (ulna), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sweetwater Canyon, which is in a Zanclean marine horizon in the Etchegoin Formation of California.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Gavia concinna Wetmore p. 6
1942Gavia concinna Miller and DeMay p. 71
1943Gavia palaeodytes Wetmore p. 64
1949Gavia concinna Howard p. 185
1953Gavia concinna Brodkorb p. 211
1953Gavia palaeodytes Brodkorb p. 212
1955Gavia palaeodytes Brodkorb p. 4
1955Gavia concinna Brodkorb p. 5
1956Gavia concinna Miller p. 617
1956Gavia concinna Wetmore p. 7
1956Gavia palaeodytes Wetmore p. 7
1958Gavia concinna Miller and Bowman p. 4
1972Gavia concinna Howard p. 3
2001Gavia concinna Olson and Rasmussen p. 243

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Gaviiformes(Wetmore and Miller 1926)
familyGaviidaeAllen 1897
genusGaviaForster 1788
speciesconcinna

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.

†Gavia concinna Wetmore 1940
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Invalid names: Gavia palaeodytes Wetmore 1943 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Tortonian to the top of the Irvingtonian or 11.62000 to 0.30000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246USA (Florida) Gavia concinna, Gavia palaeodytes (122350 122351)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Gavia concinna (52582)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (California) Gavia concinna (type locality: 125338)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588USA (California) Gavia concinna (13451 19703)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Florida) Gavia concinna (20334 20400)