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Phalangiotarbus subovalis

Taxonomy

Architarbus subovalis was named by Woodward (1872). Its type specimen is TCD F103/SC (neotype) and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Cornfield pit, south bank of river Calder, near Padiham, which is in a Westphalian A interdistributary bay shale in the Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Phalangiotarbus.

It was recombined as Phalangiotarbus subovalis by Pocock (1911), Petrunkevitch (1949), Petrunkevitch (1953), Dunlop and Horrocks (1997), Dunlop et al. (2013).

Year	Name and author
1872	Architarbus subovalis Woodward p. 387 figs. Pl 9, figs 1,1a,1b
1877	Architarbus subovalis Haughton p. 222 fig. 1,2
1904	Architarbus subovalis Fritsch p. 35 fig. 39
1911	Phalangiotarbus subovalis Pocock p. 46 fig. 17
1949	Phalangiotarbus subovalis Petrunkevitch p. 173
1953	Phalangiotarbus subovalis Petrunkevitch p. 51
1997	Phalangiotarbus subovalis Dunlop and Horrocks p. 378 fig. 1,2
2013	Phalangiotarbus subovalis Dunlop et al. p. 48