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Caridosuctor populosum

Osteichthyes - Rhabdodermatidae

Taxonomy
Caridosuctor populosum was named by Lund and Lund (1984). Its type specimen is MV 6021, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection), which is in an Arnsbergian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Caridosuctor populosum Lund and Lund p. 239 fig. 1
1985Caridosuctor populosum Lund and Lund
1998Caridosuctor populosum Forey p. 304

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
infraclassActinistia(Cope 1870)
familyRhabdodermatidaeBerg 1958
genusCaridosuctor
speciespopulosum

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.

†Caridosuctor populosum Lund and Lund 1984
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Arnsbergian or 326.90000 to 323.60000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Arnsbergian326.9 - 323.6USA (Montana) Caridosuctor populosum (type locality: 90681 116657 227056 227066)