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Mesiteia sahelalmae
Taxonomy
Scyllium sahelalmae was named by Pictet and Humbert (1866). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sahel Alma (Humbert collection), which is in a Santonian carbonate lime mudstone in Lebanon.
It was recombined as Mesiteia sahelalmae by Woodward (1889), Herman (1977).
It was recombined as Mesiteia sahelalmae by Woodward (1889), Herman (1977).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Scyllium sahelalmae Pictet and Humbert p. 111 figs. Pl 18, figs 2-4 |
| 1887 | Scyllium sahelalmae Davis p. 476 figs. Pl 15, fig 3 |
| 1889 | Mesiteia sahelalmae Woodward p. 345 |
| 1977 | Mesiteia sahelalmae Herman p. 146 |
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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.
†Mesiteia sahelalmae Pictet and Humbert 1866
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.70000 to 83.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian | Lebanon | Scyllium sahelalmae (221226) |