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Pteronisculus aldingeri

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Glaucolepis aldingeri was named by Nielsen (1942). Its type specimen is 66, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone III, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in Greenland.

It was recombined as Pteronisculus aldingeri by Ren and Xu (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. maropterus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Glaucolepis aldingeri Nielsen p. 97 figs. 37, 42-3, 55C, 56; pl. 20 fig. 1, pl. 24
2021Pteronisculus aldingeri Ren and Xu p. 187

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
genusPteronisculus
speciesaldingeri()

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.

†Pteronisculus aldingeri Nielsen 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Griesbachian or 251.90200 to 250.50000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Greenland Glaucolepis aldingeri (type locality: 153365 153366)