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Parascopelus
Taxonomy
Parascopelus is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Parascopelus lacertosus.
It was assigned to Scopelidae by Sauvage (1873); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Sudidae by Arambourg (1925); to Alepisauriformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Bathysauropsidae by Carnevale (2007), Legendre et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Scopelidae by Sauvage (1873); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Sudidae by Arambourg (1925); to Alepisauriformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Bathysauropsidae by Carnevale (2007), Legendre et al. (2020).
Species
P. lacertosus (type species)
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by P. Vazquez on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Messinian or 15.98000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Miocene | Italy | P. lacertosus (185486) | |
| Messinian | Italy | P. lacerlosus (185692) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Sicily) | P. lacerlosus (186578) |