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Boreosomus piveteaui
Taxonomy
Boreosomus piveteaui was named by Nielsen (1942). Its type specimen is 201, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone II, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in Greenland.
Entered
by P. Vazquez (authorized by M. Clapham) on 2013-12-12
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1942 | Boreosomus piveteaui Nielsen p. 378 figs. 58-78, pls. 25-30 |
| 1995 | Boreosomus piveteaui Poplin and Lund p. 228 |
| 2021 | Boreosomus piveteaui Shen and Arratia p. 1320 |
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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.
†Boreosomus piveteaui Nielsen 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Griesbachian or 251.90200 to 250.50000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Griesbachian | Greenland | Boreosomus piveteaui (type locality: 153362 153364 153365 153366) |