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Lopholatilus ereborensis
Taxonomy
Lopholatilus ereborensis was named by Carnevale and Godfrey (2014). Its type specimen is USNM 467782, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stratford Bluffs, Zone 10-11, which is in a Langhian estuary/bay claystone in the Calvert Formation of Virginia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale and Godfrey p. 1019 |
| 2018 | Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale and Godfrey p. 176 |
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†Lopholatilus ereborensis Carnevale and Godfrey 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Carnevale and S. J. Godfrey 2014 | A Lopholatilus species characterized by moder- ately deep head (maximum depth contained slightly less than two times in head length); short snout (snout length contained more than four times in head length); short ascending process of the premaxilla (length of the ascending process 34–36.5% of length of alveolar process); shortened horizontal arm of the preopercle (length of the horizontal arm of the preopercle 52.8– 66.4% of length of vertical arm); angle formed by vertical and horizontal arms of the preopercle measuring about 120; occipi- tal region of the neurocranium obliquely sloping; epioccipital spine extending posteriorly beyond the supraoccipital crest; villi- form teeth on dentary restricted to the symphyseal region; cen- trum of the second abdominal vertebra subrectangular, clearly longer than high. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Langhian to the top of the Serravallian or 15.98000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Langhian | USA (Virginia) | Lopholatilus ereborensis (71797 type locality: 71808 79793) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | Lopholatilus ereborensis (45508 187324) |