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Besania micrognathus
Taxonomy
Besania micrognathus was named by Brough (1939). Its type specimen is BMNH P19383, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Besano, Bender collection, Monte San Giorgio, which is in an Illyrian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Italy. It is the type species of Besania.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1939 | Besania micrognathus Brough p. 50 figs. Pl 6, fig 4; text-fig 20 |
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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.
†Besania micrognathus Brough 1939
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||