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Arctops kitchingi
Taxonomy
Arctops kitchingi was named by Sigogneau (1970). Its type specimen is BP/1/265, a skull (Poorly preserved skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Leeufontein, Murraysburg, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial siliciclastic in South Africa.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1970 | Arctops kitchingi Sigogneau |
| 1989 | Arctops kitchingi Sigogneau-Russell |
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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.
†Arctops kitchingi Sigogneau 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Bambach et al. 2007, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.51000 to 254.14000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Aelurognathus minor (type locality: 178734) |