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Ostodolepis brevispinatus
Taxonomy
Ostodolepis brevispinatus was named by Williston (1913). Its type specimen is FMNH UR 680, a set of postcrania (seven articulated vertebrae with associated ribs; dermal scales), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coffee Creek, 34 (Arroyo Formation), which is in a Kungurian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Arroyo Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Ostodolepis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1913 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Williston p. 363 figs. 1, 2 |
| 1930 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Hay p. 45 |
| 1956 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Gregory et al. p. 31 |
| 1978 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Carroll and Gaskill pp. 76, 77 fig. 47 |
| 1998 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Carroll et al. p. 51 |
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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.
†Ostodolepis brevispinatus Williston 1913
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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: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||