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Pleuropholis crassicauda

Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pleuropholidae

Taxonomy
Pleuropholis crassicaudus was named by Egerton (1858). Its type specimen is BMNH, a partial skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durdlestone Bay, Austin's bed 106, which is in a Berriasian lagoonal mudstone in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Pleuropholis.

It was corrected as Pleuropholis crassicauda by Woodward (1919).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Pleuropholis crassicaudus Egerton figs. Pl 7, fig 2
1919Pleuropholis crassicauda Woodward p. 118

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
orderPholidophoriformes
familyPleuropholidae
genusPleuropholis
speciescrassicauda()

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.

†Pleuropholis crassicauda Egerton 1858
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2004-08-17 14:52:40
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:42
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
Reference: Carroll 1988

Age range: Berriasian or 145.00000 to 139.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian145.0 - 139.8United Kingdom (England) Pleuropholis crassicaudus (type locality: 122162)