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Elliotsmithia longiceps
Taxonomy
Elliotsmithia longiceps was named by Broom (1937). Its type specimen is TM 1483, a partial skeleton (skull and mandibles with most of the antorbital region missing, incl. partial hyoid apparatus, cervical vertebrae, ribs fragments and osteoderms), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Abrahamskraal, Prince Albert, which is in a Capitanian floodplain sandstone/claystone in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Elliotsmithia longiceps Broom |
| 1986 | Elliotsmithia longiceps Reisz |
| 1996 | Elliotsmithia longiceps Dilkes and Reisz p. 1167 fig. 2 |
| 2001 | Elliotsmithia longiceps Modesto et al. pp. 250, 251 figs. 1-4, 5C, 6 |
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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.
†Elliotsmithia longiceps Broom 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Elliotsmithia longiceps (type locality: 86388) |