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Tselfatia

Actinopteri - Tselfatiiformes - Plethodidae

Taxonomy
Tselfatia is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Tselfatiidae.

It was assigned to Tselfatiidae by Patterson (1964) and Maisch and Lehmann (2000); to Crossognathiformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Plethodidae by Taverne (2000) and Amalfitano et al. (2020).

Species
T. formosa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Tselfatia Patterson p. 426
2000Tselfatia Maisch and Lehmann p. 502
2000Tselfatia Taverne
2002Tselfatia Sepkoski
2020Tselfatia Amalfitano et al. p. 284

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
orderTselfatiiformesNelson 1994
familyPlethodidaeLoomis 1900
genusTselfatia

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.

G. †Tselfatia
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†Tselfatia formosa Arambourg 1943
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 21:48:32
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:48:32
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Turonian to the top of the Campanian or 93.90000 to 72.10000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Italy (Treviso) T. formosa (214716)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Germany T. formosa (221944)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Italy (Belluno) T. formosa (214717)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Italy T. formosa (214600)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Italy (Vicenza) T. formosa (214715)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Mexico (Puebla) T. formosa (127465)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Mexico (Guerrero) T. sp. (232103)
Coniacian - Santonian89.8 - 83.6USA (Texas) T. formosa (221134)
Campanian83.6 - 72.1Croatia T. formosa (221145)