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Lysorophus dunkardensis
Taxonomy
Lysorophus dunkardensis was named by Romer (1952). Its type specimen is CM 8581, a set of vertebrae, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Silver Hill, Proctor District, which is in a Wolfcampian terrestrial claystone in the Greene Formation of West Virginia.
Entered
by G. Lloyd on 2015-05-26
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1952 | Lysorophus dunkardensis Romer |
| 1998 | Lysorophus dunkardensis Carroll et al. p. 144 |
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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.
†Lysorophus dunkardensis Romer 1952
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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, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Virgilian to the top of the Wolfcampian or 303.70000 to 286.00000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanian | USA (Pennsylvania) | Lysorophus dunkardensis (126535) | |
| Stephanian | USA (West Virginia) | Lysorophus dunkardensis (178677) | |
| Virgilian | USA (West Virginia) | Lysorophus dunkardensis (177058) | |
| Wolfcampian | USA (West Virginia) | Lysorophus dunkardensis (type locality: 177138 178674 178675) | |
| Wolfcampian | USA (Ohio) | Lysorophus dunkardensis (178676) |