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Belemnocerca prolata
Taxonomy
Belemnocerca prolata was named by Wendruff and Wilson (2013). Its type specimen is UALVP 43606, a partial skeleton (caudal peduncle and fin with supplementary lobe and anal fin), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ganoid Range, Cirque C, Wapiti Lake, which is in a Smithian offshore siltstone in the Sulphur Mountain Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Belemnocerca.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2013 | Belemnocerca prolata Wendruff and Wilson p. 905 fig. 2,3 |
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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.
†Belemnocerca prolata Wendruff and Wilson 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||