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Teratophon spinigenis
Taxonomy
Thelegnathus spinigenis was named by Gow (1977). Its type specimen is BP/1/4299, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lemoenfontein 44, Rouxville District, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain siliciclastic in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Teratophon.
It was recombined as Teratophon spinigenis by Modesto and Damiani (2003).
It was recombined as Teratophon spinigenis by Modesto and Damiani (2003).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Thelegnathus spinigenis Gow p. 117 fig. 7 |
| 2003 | Teratophon spinigenis Modesto and Damiani p. 60 fig. 5 |
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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.
†Teratophon spinigenis Gow 1977
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. E. Gow 1977 | Quadratojugal produced postero-laterally in the form of a large blunt spine. (No species diagnostic dental information available.) | |
| S.P. Modesto and R. J. Damiani 2003 | A taxon distinguished from other procolophonids by the presence of a large, posterolaterally-directed spine-like process of the quadratojugal. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||