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Cartorhynchus lenticarpus
Taxonomy
Cartorhynchus lenticarpus was named by Motani et al. (2015). Its type specimen is Anhui Geological Museum AGB6257, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South Majiashan quarry (Nanlinghu Fm), which is in a Spathian basinal (siliciclastic) marl in the Nanlinghu Formation of China. It is the type species of Cartorhynchus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2015 | Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Motani et al. p. 485 |
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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.
†Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Motani et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Motani et al. 2015 | Autapomorphies are: snout only half as long as the rest of the skull; very large hyoid; forelimb strongly curved posteriorly; anteriorly curved hindlimb; ribs robust, with proximal intercostal space narrower than ribs; scapula wider distally than proximally; autopodium with broadly spaced tiny ossifications; only three manual digits ossified; gastralia with- out median element. Other features: mandible deep; trunk shorter than in ichthyopterygians by at least five vertebrae; pineal foramen very large; interclavicle cruciform; parapophyses confluent with anterior verte- bral margin. |
Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||