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Eocasea martini
Taxonomy
Eocasea martini was named by Reisz and Fröbisch (2014). Its type specimen is KUVP 9616b, a partial skeleton (a partial skull and postcranial skeleton of a juvenile individual, including the posterior one-third of the skull and right mandible, nearly complete vertebral ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hamilton Quarry, which is in a Virgilian estuary/bay shale in the Calhoun Shale Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Eocasea.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Eocasea martini Reisz and Fröbisch p. 2 figs. 1-3 |
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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.
†Eocasea martini Reisz and Fröbisch 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. R. Reisz and J. Fröbisch 2014 | A small caseid with the following autapomorphies: small, blade-like neural spines in dorsal and anterior caudal vertebrae; first sacral rib with very broad distal head, three times the size of that of the second sacral rib. Differs from other caseids in having unexpanded rib cage, last two dorsal ribs more slender than the other dorsals. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||