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Atherina atropatiensis
Taxonomy
Atherina atropatiensis was named by Carnevale et al. (2011). Its type specimen is BSPG 2010 XXI−4, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baghmisheh−Marzdaran, which is in a Tortonian marine marl in Iran.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2011 | Atherina atropatiensis Carnevale et al. p. 750 figs. Figs. 2, 3, Table 1 |
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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.
†Atherina atropatiensis Carnevale et al. 2011
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Carnevale et al. 2011 | A species of Atherina with 42 (20+22) vertebrae; first dorsal fin with five or six spines; second dorsal fin with one slender spine plus 11 to 13 soft rays; anal fin with one spine and 16 to 18 soft rays; anterior haemal arches and spines thin and slender; ascending process of the premaxilla spatulate and slightly shorter than the alveolar (ascending/alveolar ratio = 0.83); dorsolateral process of the basipterygium closely as− sociated to the seventh or eighth pleural rib. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||