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Homalopagus multispinosus
Taxonomy
Homalopagus multispinosus was named by Murray and Wilson (2014). Its type specimen is UALVP 51665, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. It is the type species of Homalopagus.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2014 | Homalopagus multispinosus Murray and Wilson p. 38 fig. 4–6 |
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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.
†Homalopagus multispinosus Murray and Wilson 2014
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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A. M. Murray and M. V. H. Wilson 2014 | Aipichthyoidea differing from all other known aipichthyoid genera by the much greater number of dorsal fin spines, 11 or 12, compared with two in Aipichthyoides, two to three in Aipichthys, three in Freigichthys, four in Paraipichthys and Aspesaipichthys, and five in Errachidia pentaspinosa. |
Measurements
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 |
Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Cenomanian | Morocco (Meknes-Tafilalet) | Homalopagus multispinosus (136753) |