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Scopeloides bellator
Taxonomy
Scopeloides bellator was named by Calzoni et al. (2025). Its type specimen is MUSE-PAL 12a, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2025 | Scopeloides bellator Calzoni et al. p. 465 |
| 2025 | Scopeloides bellator Calzoni and et al |
| 2026 | Scopeloides bellator Calzoni et al. p. 24 |
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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.
†Scopeloides bellator Calzoni et al. 2025
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Calzoni et al. 2025 | A medium-sized Scopeloides characterized by the following combination of features: body moderately thick, with a deep caudal peduncle (BD: 20.4–31.4% of SL; CPH: 9.6–17.3% of SL); premaxilla short, being one fourth of the length of the maxilla, bearing two or three long conical teeth, separated by 4–12 smaller needle-like teeth; maxilla with six to eight long conical teeth separated by 6–13 needle-like teeth; large ovoid anterior supramaxilla reaching half the length of the maxilla; wedge-like posterior supramaxilla reaching one fourth of the length of the maxilla; dentary with seven or eight large, conical teeth separated by seven to ten needle-like teeth; 10-11 branchiostegal rays; triangular urohyal with a slightly curved margins; 35–39 vertebrae (18–20 caudals); epineurals in the first five caudal vertebrae articulate close to the base of the neural arches; epipleurals articulate with the first four or five caudal vertebrae at one third of the length of the haemal spine; haemal spine of the second preural centrum slightly expanded; seven to nine dorsal and six to seven ventral procurrent caudal-fin rays; pectoral fin with up to 14 rays. |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||