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Taxonomy
Plesiosminthus tereskentensis was named by Lopatin (1999). Its type specimen is PIN, no. 4516/479, a tooth (Right M2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Altynshokysu (bone bed I), which is in an Oligocene terrestrial siltstone/claystone in the Aral Formation of Kazakhstan.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Plesiosminthus tereskentensis Lopatin |
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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.
†Plesiosminthus tereskentensis Lopatin 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kazakhstan (Aktyubinsk) | Plesiosminthus sp. (type locality: 175920) |