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Falcatus falcatus

Chondrichthyes - Symmoriiformes - Falcatidae

Taxonomy
Physonemus falcatus was named by St. John and Worthen (1883). Its type specimen is ISM 8720, a set of vertebrae (spine), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Falcatus.

It was recombined as Falcatus falcatus by Lund (1985).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1883Physonemus falcatus St. John and Worthen
1985Falcatus falcatus Lund p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classChondrichthyes
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
superorderCladodontomorphi
orderSymmoriiformes()
familyFalcatidaeZangerl 1990
genusFalcatus
speciesfalcatus(St. John and Worthen 1883)

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.

†Falcatus falcatus St. John and Worthen 1883
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-21 07:21:01
Modified: 2009-07-21 09:21:01
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023

Age range: Arnsbergian or 327.00000 to 323.70000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Arnsbergian327.0 - 323.7USA (Montana) Falcatus falcatus (90681 116654 116655 116657 116659 116764 227064 227065)