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Protodictyon pulchripenne
Taxonomy
Protodictyon pulchripenne was named by Melander (1903) [Specimen number is same as Eucaenus attenuatus]. Its type specimen is Chicago Academy Sciences 4749, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (Chicago Acad Sci Egan collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Protodictyon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1903 | Protodictyon pulchripenne Melander p. 196 figs. Pl 6, fig 7; pl 7, fig 17 |
| 1906 | Protodictyon pulchripenne Handlirsch p. 329 figs. Pl XXXIV fig 13 |
| 2019 | Protodictyon pulchripenne Schubnel et al. p. 503 fig. 3,4 |
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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.
†Protodictyon pulchripenne Melander 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Westphalian D or 309.80000 to 307.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian D | USA (Illinois) | Protodictyon pulchripenne (type locality: 122523) |