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Blandicephalus texanus
Taxonomy
Blandicephalus texanus was named by Palmer (1954). Its type specimen is USNM 123320, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Coll. 33-CO, which is in a Paibian marine sandstone/limestone in the Riley Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Blandicephalus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Blandicephalus texanus Palmer p. 749 figs. Pl. 85, fig. 7-10 |
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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.
†Blandicephalus texanus Palmer 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||