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Oestocephalus nanum
Taxonomy
Ophiderpeton nanum was named by Hancock and Atthey (1868). Its type specimen is Hancock Museum G25.34, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hannah Pit, Newsham, which is in a Westphalian B terrestrial coal in the Middle Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Oestocephalus nanum by Milner (1994).
It was recombined as Oestocephalus nanum by Milner (1994).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1868 | Ophiderpeton nanum Hancock and Atthey |
| 1994 | Oestocephalus nanum Milner |
| 1998 | Ophiderpeton nanum Carroll et al. p. 180 |
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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.
†Oestocephalus nanum Hancock and Atthey 1868
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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: Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Westphalian B or 316.90000 to 314.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian B | United Kingdom (England) | Ophiderpeton nanum (type locality: 177139) |