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Elliotherium kersteni
Taxonomy
Elliotherium kersteni was named by Sidor and Hancox (2006). Its type specimen is BP/1/6106, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Farm Beatrix, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian floodplain siltstone in the Elliot Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Elliotherium.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2006 | Elliotherium kersteni Sidor and Hancox p. 334 |
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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.
†Elliotherium kersteni Sidor and Hancox 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.40000 to 192.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hettangian - Sinemurian | South Africa (Free State) | Elliotherium kersteni (type locality: 105703) |