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Porolepididae
Taxonomy
Porolepidae is a family. Its type is Porolepis.
It was corrected as Porolepididae by van der Laan (2019).
It was assigned to Porolepiformes by Nelson et al. (2016); and to Porolepidiformes by van der Laan (2019).
It was corrected as Porolepididae by van der Laan (2019).
It was assigned to Porolepiformes by Nelson et al. (2016); and to Porolepidiformes by van der Laan (2019).
Subtaxa
Porolepis (type genus)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2016 | Porolepidae Nelson et al. p. 107 |
| 2019 | Porolepididae van der Laan p. 88 |
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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.
Fm. †Porolepididae Berg 1940
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G. †Porolepis Woodward 1891
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†Porolepis brevis Jarvik 1942
†Porolepis elongata Jarvik 1942
†Porolepis foxi Johanson et al. 2013
†Porolepis hefteri Gross 1935
†Porolepis kureikensis Vorobyeva 1963
†Porolepis posnaniensis Kade 1858
†Porolepis siegenensis Gross 1935
†Porolepis spitbergensis Jarvik 1942
†Porolepis uralensis Obrutchev 1938
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Emsian to the top of the Eifelian or 410.62000 to 387.95000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Devonian | Belarus (Vitebsk) | Porolepis sp. (232499) | |
| Pragian - Eifelian | Australia (New South Wales) | Porolepis foxi (235896) | |
| Early/Lower Emsian | Germany (Alken) | Porolepis sp. (27049) | |
| Emsian | Belarus (Vitebsk) | Porolepididae indet. (232877) | |
| Late/Upper Emsian - Eifelian | Latvia | Porolepis sp. (226510) | |
| Eifelian | Estonia | Porolepis sp. (225791) |