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Taxonomy
Messelophis variatus was named by Baszio (2004). Its type specimen is SMF ME 1828a, 1828b, articulated nearly complete skeleton and ME 1828c (holotype of three parts), a set of vertebrae (four isolated vertebrae), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Messelophis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Messelophis variatus Baszio |
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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.
†Messelophis variatus Baszio 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Greene 1997, Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||