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Prorastomus sirenoides
Taxonomy
Prorastomus sirenoides was named by Owen (1855). Its type specimen is BMNH 44897, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Freemans Hall, which is in a Lutetian carbonate limestone in the Chapelton Formation of Jamaica.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1855 | Prorastomus sirenoides Owen p. 543 figs. Plate 15 |
| 1885 | Prorastomus sirenoides Woodward p. 425 |
| 1887 | Prorastomus sirenoides Lydekker p. 12 |
| 1898 | Prorastomus sirenoides Trouessart p. 999 |
| 1904 | Prorastomus sirenoides Trouessart p. 748 |
| 1925 | Prorastomus sirenoides Zittel p. 264 |
| 1959 | Prorastomus sirenoides Reinhart p. 5 |
| 1993 | Prorastomus sirenoides Domning and Clark p. 414 |
| 1994 | Prorastomus sirenoides Domning p. 189 |
| 1994 | Prorastomus sirenoides Savage et al. p. 428 |
| 1996 | Prorastomus sirenoides Domning p. 378 |
| 2008 | Prorastomus sirenoides Domning p. 527 |
| 2014 | Prorastomus sirenoides Voss p. 91 figs. Figure 3 |
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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.
†Prorastomus sirenoides Owen 1855
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Domning 1979 | |||||