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Chiloscyllium meraense
Taxonomy
Chiloscyllium meraense was named by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mera el Arech, sillon B, which is in a Ypresian marine sandstone in Morocco.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Chiloscyllium meraense Noubhani and Cappetta p. 20 figs. Pl 1, figs 5-8; pl 2, figs 1-7 |
| 2005 | Chiloscyllium meraense Tabuce et al. p. 385 |
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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.
†Chiloscyllium meraense Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian | Morocco | Chiloscyllium meraense (116904 214849 214850 type locality: 214851) | |
| Lutetian | Morocco | Chiloscyllium meraense (91339) | |
| Lutetian | Senegal | Chiloscyllium meraense (133429) |