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Caeruleum miraculum
Taxonomy
Caeruleum miraculum was named by Huang (2024). Its type specimen is BMM 3770A/B, a skeleton (A complete eel-like slender body specimen, pre- serving the head, body and tail.), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Naizi Mountain, which is in a Cretaceous delta plain shale/sandstone in the Jiufotang Formation of China. It is the type species of Caeruleum.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2024 | Caeruleum miraculum Huang p. 2259 |
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†Caeruleum miraculum Huang 2024
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. Huang 2024 | It is huge, with the total length of more than 240 mm (Table 1), the body depth of more than 17 mm, the preorbital length of more than 25 mm, and the anterior dorsal fin commencing after the seventh gill pouch. |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Cretaceous or 143.10000 to 100.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cretaceous | China (Hebei) | Caeruleum miraculum (type locality: 237239) |