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Placopleurus comptus
Taxonomy
Venusichthys comptus was named by Xu and Zhao (2016). Its type specimen is IVPP V20010, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Luoping biota (IVPP collection), which is in a Pelsonian carbonate lime mudstone in the Guanling Formation of China.
It was recombined as Placopleurus comptus by Tintori et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Placopleurus comptus by Tintori et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2016 | Placopleurus comptus Tintori et al. p. 195 |
| 2016 | Venusichthys comptus Xu and Zhao p. 339 figs. 1-3 |
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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.
†Placopleurus comptus Xu and Zhao 2016
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| Reference: Carroll 1988 | |||||