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Ostodolepis brevispinatus
Taxonomy
Ostodolepis brevispinatus was named by Williston (1913). Its type specimen is FMNH UR 680, a set of postcrania (seven articulated vertebrae with associated ribs; dermal scales), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coffee Creek, 34 (Arroyo Formation), which is in a Kungurian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Arroyo Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Ostodolepis.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1913 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Williston p. 363 figs. 1, 2 |
1930 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Hay p. 45 |
1956 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Gregory et al. p. 31 |
1978 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Carroll and Gaskill pp. 76, 77 fig. 47 |
1998 | Ostodolepis brevispinatus Carroll et al. p. 51 |
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†Ostodolepis brevispinatus Williston 1913
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available