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Taxonomy
Gerastos aintawilus was named by Gibb and Chatterton (2010). Its type specimen is UA13454 (complete exoskeleton) and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BD5, which is in an Eifelian shallow subtidal wackestone/mudstone in the El Otfal Formation of Morocco.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Gerastos aintawilus Gibb and Chatterton p. 16 figs. pl. 5.1-5.4; pl 6.1-6.7 |
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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.
†Gerastos aintawilus Gibb and Chatterton 2010
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||