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Scymnosaurus ferox
Taxonomy
Scymnosaurus ferox was named by Broom (1903). Its type specimen is SAM, a partial skull (Partial snout), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is "Near Beaufort West", which is in a Capitanian terrestrial siliciclastic in South Africa. It is the type species of Scymnosaurus.
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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.
†Scymnosaurus ferox Broom 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Scymnosaurus ferox (93086 type locality: 179623 198720) |