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Protospinax planus
Taxonomy
Protospinax planus was named by Underwood (2002). Its type specimen is P65694, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ringstead Bay, Weymouth, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian marine horizon in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2002 | Protospinax planus Underwood p. 312 |
| 2025 | Protospinax planus Begat et al. p. 734 |
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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.
†Protospinax planus Underwood 2002
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 152.21000 to 145.06000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | United Kingdom (England) | Protospinax planus (type locality: 140224) |