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Acrolepis sedgwickii

Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae

Taxonomy
Acrolepis sedgwicki was named by Agassiz (1833). It is the type species of Acrolepis.

It was corrected as Acrolepis sedgwickii by Agassiz (1839), Agassiz (1843), Howse (1848), King (1850), Woodward (1891) and Holzapfel and Malzahn (1984).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Gyrolepis asper Agassiz p. 6
1833Acrolepis sedgwicki Agassiz p. 11
1839Acrolepis sedgwickii Agassiz figs. Pl 52
1839Palaeoniscus dunkeri Kurtze
1842Acrolepis dunkeri Münster
1843Acrolepis sedgwickii Agassiz p. 80
1843Acrolepis asper Agassiz p. 81
1848Acrolepis sedgwickii Howse p. 236
1850Acrolepis sedgwickii King p. 234 figs. Pl 25, figs 1a-c
1891Acrolepis sedgwickii Woodward p. 501
1902Acrolepis sedgwicki Hay p. 369
1984Acrolepis sedgwickii Holzapfel and Malzahn p. 83 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-8; text-fig 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
—Actinopterygii()
orderElonichthyiformesKazantseva-Selezneva 1977
familyAcrolepididaeAldinger 1937
genusAcrolepis
speciessedgwickii()

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.

†Acrolepis sedgwickii Agassiz 1833
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Invalid names: Acrolepis dunkeri Kurtze 1839 [synonym], Gyrolepis asper Agassiz 1833 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Kungurian to the top of the Wuchiapingian or 279.30000 to 254.17000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ufimian - Late/Upper Kazanian279.5 - 268.0Russian Federation (Udmurtia) Acrolepis sedgwicki (187322)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3Russian Federation (Perm) Acrolepis sedgwicki (232570)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17Germany Acrolepis sedgwicki (137316 140943 140944) Acrolepis sedgwickii (96856 130039 130041 130063)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom Acrolepis sedgwicki (131704)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom (England) Acrolepis sedgwickii (90263 90264 90266 90268)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom (Durham) Acrolepis sedgwicki (131707)