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Elpistostege watsoni

Osteichthyes - Osteolepidiformes - Panderichthyidae

Taxonomy
Elpistostege watsoni was named by Westoll (1938). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shore of River Ristigouche, Miguasha, which is in a Frasnian estuary/bay shale in the Escuminac Formation of Canada.

Entered
by E. Dunne (authorized by R. Butler) on 2016-06-03

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Elpistostege watsoni Westoll p. 128
2016Elpistostege watsoni Borgen and Nakrem

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
infraclassOsteolepidida(Boulenger 1901)
orderOsteolepidiformes
suborderCyclolepidoidei
familyPanderichthyidaeVorobyeva and Larskaja 1968
subfamilyElpistosteginae
genusElpistostege
specieswatsoni

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.

†Elpistostege watsoni Westoll 1938
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available