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Austerops smoothops
Taxonomy
Phacops smoothops was named by Chatterton et al. (2006). Its type specimen is UA 13306, an exoskeleton (enrolled), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zguilma section, Timrhanrhart Fm, Lower Bed, ZGEE1 , which is in an Emsian shallow subtidal mudstone in the Timrhanrhart Formation of Morocco.
It was recombined as Austerops smoothops by McKellar and Chatterton (2009).
It was recombined as Austerops smoothops by McKellar and Chatterton (2009).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2006 | Phacops smoothops Chatterton et al. p. 15 figs. Pl. 4.1-4.3, 4.9 |
| 2009 | Austerops smoothops McKellar and Chatterton p. 34 |
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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.
†Austerops smoothops Chatterton et al. 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Emsian to the top of the Eifelian or 399.50000 to 387.95000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Emsian - Eifelian | Morocco | Austerops smoothops (188202) | |
| Late/Upper Emsian | Morocco | Phacops smoothops (type locality: 142430 181542) | |
| Eifelian | Morocco | Phacops smoothops (142431 188190) |