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Taxonomy
Latiscutella santosi was named by Pinto and de Ornellas (1974). Its type specimen is MP.UFRGS-MP-I-5594, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Uchoa, Mearim River, which is in an Aptian terrestrial horizon in the Codo Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Latiscutella.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1974 | Latiscutella santosi Pinto and de Ornellas p. 302 figs. Pl 2, fig 1, foto 1 |
| 1994 | Latiscutella santosi Martins-Neto and Caldas p. 264 figs. Pl 1; text-fig 1 |
| 2000 | Latiscutella santosi Popov and Pinto p. S302 fig. 2 |
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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.
†Latiscutella santosi Pinto and de Ornellas 1974
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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: Late/Upper Aptian or 119.57000 to 113.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian | Brazil (Maranhao) | Latiscutella santosi (type locality: 125972) | |
| Late/Upper Aptian | Brazil (Ceará) | Latiscutella santosi (152600) |