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Teffichthys elegans

Osteichthyes - Perleidiformes - Perleididae

Taxonomy
Teffichthys elegans was named by Yuan et al. (2022). Its type specimen is CUGM K2-E2601, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lianhuacun village, Guiding County, which is in a Dienerian carbonate marl in the Daye Formation of China.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2022-05-17

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Teffichthys elegans Yuan et al. p. 6 figs. 2-9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
—NeopterygiiRegan 1923
orderPerleidiformesBerg 1937
familyPerleididaeBrough 1931
genusTeffichthys
specieselegans

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.

†Teffichthys elegans Yuan et al. 2022
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available