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Ophiopsis dorsalis

Osteichthyes - Ophiopsiidae

Taxonomy
Ophiopsis dorsalis was named by Agassiz (1843). Its type specimen is BMNH P.466, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Swanage (BMNH fish coll.), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. procera

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Ophiopsis dorsalis Agassiz figs. Pl 36, fig 5
1895Ophiopsis dorsalis Woodward p. 171

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassActinopterygii()
infraclassActinopteri()
—NeopterygiiRegan 1923
—Halecomorphi(Cope 1872)
familyOphiopsiidaeBartram 1975
genusOphiopsis
speciesdorsalis

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.

†Ophiopsis dorsalis Agassiz 1843
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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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Berriasian to the top of the Early/Lower Aptian or 143.10000 to 119.57000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian143.1 - 137.05United Kingdom (England) Ophiopsis dorsalis (type locality: 131852)
Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian125.77 - 119.57Belgium (Hainaut) Ophiopsis dorsalis (22645)