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Apatokephalus sarculum
Taxonomy
Apatokephalus sarculum was named by Fortey and Owens (1991). Its type specimen is NMW 86.27G.14, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coundmoor Brook, which is in a Migneintian slope shale in the Shineton Shales Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1991 | Apatokephalus sarculum Fortey and Owens p. 455 figs. Fig. 12a-j |
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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.
†Apatokephalus sarculum Fortey and Owens 1991
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy 2009, Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Migneintian or 481.10000 to 477.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Migneintian | United Kingdom (Shropshire) | Apatokephalus sarculum (type locality: 75116) |