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Pleuronichthys veliger
Taxonomy
Zororhombus veliger was named by Jordan and Gilbert (1920). Its type specimen is Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 230, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.
It was recombined as Pleuronichthys veliger by Fierstine et al. (2012).
It was recombined as Pleuronichthys veliger by Fierstine et al. (2012).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1920 | Zororhombus veliger Jordan and Gilbert p. 39 figs. Plate XXVII |
| 2012 | Pleuronichthys veliger Fierstine et al. p. 160 |
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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.
†Pleuronichthys veliger Jordan and Gilbert 1920
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||