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Menadon besairiei
Taxonomy
Menadon besairiei was named by Flynn et al. (2000). Its type specimen is University of Antananarivo 10601, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is East of Sakaraha, which is in a Ladinian/Carnian terrestrial horizon in the Isalo II Formation of Madagascar. It is the type species of Menadon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Menadon besairiei Flynn et al. |
| 2008 | Menadon besairiei Kammerer et al. p. 446 |
| 2015 | Menadon besairiei Melo et al. |
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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.
†Menadon besairiei Flynn et al. 2000
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007 | |||||
Age range: Carnian or 237.00000 to 227.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ladinian - Carnian | Madagascar (Toliara) | Menadon besairiei (96281 96282 type locality: 96283) | |
| Carnian | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | Menadon sp. (98598) |