Tetragramma donaldtrumpi
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Lower Cretaceous | ||||||||||||
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Glen Rose Formation (USA) |
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Tetragramma donaldtrumpi | ||||||||||||
Thompson , 2016 |
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Tetragramma donaldtrumpi is a fossil sea urchins, he was, by William R. Thompson Jr., a private fossil lovers and collectors in 2016 first described . The locality dates from the Lower Cretaceous , in the Glen Rose Formation near Glen Rose , Texas , in the United States .
The genus Tetragramma is detected from the Upper Jurassic ( Oxfordium ) to the Upper Cretaceous ( Turonium ).
William R. Thomson Jr. wanted to honor Donald Trump , then American presidential candidate, with the name.
Web links and sources
- Tetragramma donaldtrumpi Thompson, 2016 GBIF Global Biodiversity Information facility
Individual evidence
- ^ William R. Thompson Jr .: Fossil Echinoids of Texas: A Monograph of Fossil Sea Urchins . River Stix, 2016, ISBN 978-1617042782 .
- ^ Tetragramma Agassiz, 1838 . In: The Echinoid Directory . Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ↑ Marty Toohey: Central Texas fossil hunter names ancient urchin after Trump article, Austin American-Statesman, November 8, 2016