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Taxonomy
Messelophis ermannorum was named by Schaal and Baszio (2004). Its type specimen is SMF ME 1812, a set of vertebrae (five trunk vertebrae), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
It was recombined as Rieppelophis ermannorum by Scanferla et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Rieppelophis ermannorum by Scanferla et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Messelophis ermannorum Schaal and Baszio |
| 2004 | Messelophis ermannorum Schaal and Baszlo |
| 2016 | Rieppelophis ermannorum Scanferla et al. |
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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.
†Rieppelophis ermannorum Schaal and Baszio 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Greene 1997, Hendy et al. 2009, Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||