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Cratephialtites kourios
Taxonomy
Karataus kourios was named by Sharkey (1990). Its type specimen is AMNH 43269, an exoskeleton (female body), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Crato (AMNH collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.
It was recombined as Cratephialtites kourios by Osten (2007) and Martins-Neto (2007).
It was recombined as Cratephialtites kourios by Osten (2007) and Martins-Neto (2007).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Karataus kourios Sharkey p. 130 fig. 2,3 |
| 1999 | Cratephialtites koiurus Rasnitsyn |
| 2007 | Cratephialtites kourios Martins-Neto |
| 2007 | Cratephialtites kourios Osten fig. 11.75d,e |
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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.
†Cratephialtites kourios Sharkey 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Aptian | Brazil (Ceará) | Karataus kourios (type locality: 122352) |