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Pteroscyllium ornatum
Taxonomy
Pteroscyllium ornatum was named by Underwood and Mitchell (1999). Its type specimen is LIVCM 1998.20.BL, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sample WC1, Speeton, which is in an Albian offshore marl in the Hunstanton Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Pteroscyllium ornatum Underwood and Mitchell figs. Pl 9, figs 1-9 |
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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.
†Pteroscyllium ornatum Underwood and Mitchell 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Albian | United Kingdom (England) | Pteroscyllium ornatum (213330 213331 213334 213341 type locality: 213350 213371 213372) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | United Kingdom (England) | Pteroscyllium ornatum (213355 213357) |