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Archaeoscyllium muftium
Taxonomy
Protospinax muftius was named by Thies (1983). Its type specimen is SMF 7112, a set of teeth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rookery Pit, London Brick Company, Stewartby, which is in a Callovian marine siltstone in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Archaeoscyllium.
It was recombined as Pseudospinax muftius by Underwood and Mitchell (1999); it was recombined as Archaeoscyllium muftium by Begat et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Pseudospinax muftius by Underwood and Mitchell (1999); it was recombined as Archaeoscyllium muftium by Begat et al. (2025).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Protospinax muftius Thies p. 23 figs. pl. 5, figs 1-3 |
| 1999 | Pseudospinax muftius Underwood and Mitchell |
| 2025 | Archaeoscyllium muftium Begat et al. p. 744 fig. 8G,H |
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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.
†Archaeoscyllium muftium Thies 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023 | |||||