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Spongiophonus pustulosus
Taxonomy
Spongiophonus pustulosus was named by Wills (1947). Its type specimen is CAMSM Wills 280 and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Borehole at Southalls Works, Charford, Birmingham, which is in an Anisian pond shale in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Spongiophonus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1947 | Spongiophonus pustulosus Wills p. 133 figs. Pl 3, figs 13-15; pl 11, figs 8,13; text-fig 53 |
| 1953 | Spongiophonus pustulosus Petrunkevitch p. 37 |
| 1986 | Spongiophonus pustulosus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 121 fig. 110L |
| 2013 | Spongiophonus pustulosus Dunlop et al. p. 33 |
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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.
†Spongiophonus pustulosus Wills 1947
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Anisian or 246.70000 to 241.46400 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Anisian | United Kingdom (Worcestershire) | Spongiophonus pustulosus (153542) | |
| Anisian | United Kingdom | Spongiophonus pustulosus (type locality: 153541) |