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Dictyopyge meekeri
Taxonomy
Dictyopyge meekeri was named by Schaeffer and McDonald (1978). Its type specimen is AMNH 4762, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Boscabel Quarry, which is in a Carnian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Tuckahoe Formation of Virginia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1978 | Dictyopyge meekeri Schaeffer and McDonald p. 145 |
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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.
†Dictyopyge meekeri Schaeffer and McDonald 1978
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald 1978 | Differs from D. macrurus in having 39-40 vertical scale rows along the lateral line; pelvic fin origin behind the eighth or ninth vertical scale row; anal fin origin behind the fifteenth to sixteenth vertical scale row; dorsal fin origin behind the twenty-fifth vertical scale row. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||