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Geralinura britannica
Taxonomy
Geralinura britannica was named by Pocock (1911). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Coseley, near Dudley (Egginton coll), which is in a Westphalian B interdistributary bay shale in the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Prothelyphonus britannicus by Petrunkevitch (1953) and Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux (1963).
It was recombined as Prothelyphonus britannicus by Petrunkevitch (1953) and Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux (1963).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1911 | Geralinura britannica Pocock p. 29 figs. Pl 1, fig 3; pl 2, fig 3; text-fig 9 |
| 1949 | Geralinura britannica Petrunkevitch p. 264 |
| 1953 | Prothelyphonus britannicus Petrunkevitch p. 97 figs. 97, 98, 178 |
| 1963 | Prothelyphonus britannicus Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux p. 25 figs. Pl 3, fig 2; text-fig 2 |
| 1996 | Geralinura britannica Dunlop and Horrocks p. 301 figs. 1, 4, 7-17 |
| 2008 | Geralinura britannica Tetlie and Dunlop p. 310 fig. 6.4 |
| 2013 | Geralinura britannica Dunlop et al. p. 192 |
| 2023 | Geralinura britannica Garwood and Dunlop p. 10 fig. 1 |
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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.
†Geralinura britannica Pocock 1911
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Westphalian A to the top of the Westphalian D or 318.70000 to 307.50000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian A | United Kingdom (Lancashire) | Geralinura britannica (172765) | |
| Westphalian B | United Kingdom (Staffordshire) | Geralinura britannica (type locality: 34907) | |
| Westphalian B | United Kingdom (England) | Geralinura britannica (127218) | |
| Westphalian D | China (Hebei) | Prothelyphonus britannicus (147001) |