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Protopterus crassidens
Taxonomy
Protopterus crassidens was named by Churcher and De Iuliis (2001). Its type specimen is ROM 47635, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is High Bluff, Two Red Hills, which is in a Campanian deltaic shale in the Quseir Formation of Egypt.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2001 | Protopterus crassidens Churcher and De Iuliis pp. 316-317 fig. 5 |
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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.
†Protopterus crassidens Churcher and De Iuliis 2001
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Middle Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Campanian | Egypt (Al Wadi al Jadid) | Protopterus crassidens (type locality: 97760 98106) |