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Peltopleurus nothocephalus
Taxonomy
Peltopleurus nothocephalus was named by Bürgin (1992). Its type specimen is PIMUZ T.2902, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Acqua ferruginosa, Tessin collection, Monte San Giorgio, which is in an Illyrian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Switzerland.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1992 | Peltopleurus nothocephalus Bürgin p. 123 figs. 148-150 |
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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.
†Peltopleurus nothocephalus Bürgin 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Illyrian or 243.33000 to 241.46400 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Illyrian | Switzerland | Peltopleurus nothocephalus (122058 type locality: 122069) | |
| Illyrian - Fassanian | Switzerland | Peltopleurus nothocephalus (122057) |