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Pteroscyllium speetonensis
Taxonomy
Pteroscyllium speetonensis was named by Underwood (2004). Its type specimen is NHMUK P.66265, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sample UB1B, Speeton, which is in an Aptian offshore marl in the Speeton Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2020-09-05
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Pteroscyllium speetonensis Underwood p. 109 figs. 3.1-3.11 |
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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 speetonensis Underwood 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Aptian or 121.40000 to 119.57000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Aptian | United Kingdom (England) | Pteroscyllium speetonensis (type locality: 213574 213575 213576 213577) |