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Patrick Hsieh posted a new specimen. 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoPatrick Hsieh has contributed specimen mFeM 78882 to myFOSSIL!
Patrick Hsieh posted a new specimen. 3 years, 8 months ago
Patrick Hsieh has contributed specimen mFeM 78882 to myFOSSIL!
Matches description of Westernia gigantea in Fenton and Fenton’s 1924 monograph on the Hackberry Fauna. GBIF indicates Loxonema gigantea is accepted synonym of Westernia gigantea.
Hi @patrick-hsieh. It appears this taxon has been most recently synonymized with Westerna gigantea in Wagner 2020 (https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=78714&is_real_user=1). GBIF may be a little behind on updating their taxonomy.
@smoran Updated with new classification. Sounds like GBIF needs to up their game..
Thanks! PBDB often provides published taxonomic data of fossil taxa to the larger databases, so it may just be the case that PBDB hasn’t pushed the newest information to GBIF yet. Just speculation on my part, though.