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Microdon discoides

Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

Taxonomy
Mesodon discoides was named by Woodward (1890). Its type specimen is BMNH P.524, a partial skull (vomer), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Little Gibraltar, near Oxford (BMNH Coll.), which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Microdon discoides by Woodward (1895).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. hugii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Mesodon discoides Woodward p. 300 figs. pl. iii fig. 32
1895Microdon discoides Woodward p. 231

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
infraclassActinopteri()
—NeopterygiiRegan 1923
orderPycnodontiformesBerg 1937
suborderPycnodontoidei
superfamilyPycnodontoidea
familyPycnodontidae()
genusMicrodon
speciesdiscoides(Woodward 1890)

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.

†Microdon discoides Woodward 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available