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Platycraniellus elegans
Taxonomy
Platycranion elegans was named by van Hoepen (1916). Its type specimen is TM 25, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Harrismith Commonage, which is in an Induan/Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Normandien Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Platycraniellus, Platycranion.
It was recombined as Platycraniellus elegans by van Hoepen (1917).
It was recombined as Platycraniellus elegans by van Hoepen (1917).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1916 | Platycranion elegans van Hoepen |
1917 | Platycraniellus elegans van Hoepen |
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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.
†Platycraniellus elegans van Hoepen 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available