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Griphotherion peiranoi
Taxonomy
Griphotherion peiranoi was named by García López and Powell (2011). Its type specimen is PVL 5903, a partial skeleton (complete skull and mandibles with complete dentition and part of the postcranial skeleton, including ribs, cervical, and thoracic vertebrae, and the right forel), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is El Simbolar (lower Lumbrera), which is in a Ypresian lacustrine mudstone in the Lumbrera Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Griphotherion.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2011 | Griphotherion peiranoi García López and Powell p. 1118 fig. 1,3,4 |
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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.
†Griphotherion peiranoi García López and Powell 2011
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||