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Caprosimilis carpathicus
Taxonomy
Caprosimilis carpathicus was named by Bienkowska-Wasiluk and Bonde (2015). Its type specimen is MWGUW ZI/57/013/a and b, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Przemyśl, which is in a Rupelian marine sandstone/siltstone in the Menilite beds Formation of Poland. It is the type species of Caprosimilis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2015 | Caprosimilis carpathicus Bienkowska-Wasiluk and Bonde p. 464 figs. Figures 3–9 |
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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.
†Caprosimilis carpathicus Bienkowska-Wasiluk and Bonde 2015
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Bienkowska-Wasiluk and N. Bonde 2015 | Body deep, posterior part of frontals ornamented with curving ridges and spines, eight branchiostegal rays, 24 vertebrae (10 abdominal), 6th interneural space is vacant, ossified ribs present on 4th to 10th abdominal ver- tebrae, nine spines and 21 soft rays in dorsal fin, four spines and 18 or more soft rays in anal fin, three anal-fin pterygiophores in the first interhaemal space (between the haemal spines of the first and second caudal vertebrae), three supernumerary spines on first radial of anal fin, hypurals 1–3 free and separate from the urostylar centrum, hypural 4 a separate plate, more dorsally positioned hypurals not fused to the urostylar centrum. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||