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Lochmocercus aciculodontus

Osteichthyes - Coelacanthiformes

Taxonomy
Lochmocercus aciculodontus was named by Lund and Lund (1984). Its type specimen is MV 6044, 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.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
L. aciculiodontus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Lochmocercus aciculodontus Lund and Lund p. 243 fig. 5
1985Lochmocercus aciculodontus Lund and Lund
1998Lochmocercus aciculodontus Forey p. 323

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
infraclassActinistia(Cope 1870)
orderCoelacanthiformesBerg 1937
genusLochmocercus
speciesaciculodontus

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.

†Lochmocercus aciculodontus 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: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Arnsbergian or 326.90000 to 323.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Arnsbergian326.9 - 323.6USA (Montana) Lochmocercus aciculiodontus (type locality: 90681)