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Styracocephalus platyrhynchus
Taxonomy
Styracocephalus platyrhynchus was named by Haughton (1929). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Boesmansrivier, which is in a Capitanian dry floodplain mudstone in the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa.
Entered
by G. Lloyd on 2018-03-20
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1929 | Styracocephalus platyrhynchus Haughton |
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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.
†Styracocephalus platyrhynchus Haughton 1929
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Bambach et al. 2007, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Styracocephalus platyrhynchus (86388 92645 type locality: 92646) |