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Protocteniza britannica
Taxonomy
Protocteniza britannica was named by Petrunkevitch (1949). Its type specimen is BMNH In. 22834 and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Coseley, near Dudley (Neil coll), which is in a Westphalian B interdistributary bay siliciclastic in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Protocteniza.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1949 | Protocteniza britannica Petrunkevitch p. 277 figs. 158, 262 |
| 1953 | Protocteniza britannica Petrunkevitch p. 104 fig. 191 |
| 2021 | Protocteniza britannica Selden p. 348 figs. 20I-L |
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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.
†Protocteniza britannica Petrunkevitch 1949
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range: Westphalian B or 316.90000 to 314.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian B | United Kingdom (Staffordshire) | Protocteniza britannica (type locality: 34935) |