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Peltosaurus floridanus

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Peltosaurus floridanus was named by Vanzolini (1952). Its type specimen is MCZ 1979, a mandible (fragment of a right mandibula), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Thomas Farm, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Alachua Formation of Florida.

It was synonymized subjectively with Peltosaurus granulosus by Maddox and Wall (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1952Peltosaurus floridanus Vanzolini p. 457

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Squamata()
—Anguimorpha(Fürbringer 1900)
—Anguiformes(Bonaparte 1831)
superfamilyAnguioideaFitzinger 1826
genusPeltosaurus
speciesfloridanus

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.

†Peltosaurus floridanus Vanzolini 1952
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Diagnosis
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