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Paratarrasius hibbardi

Actinopteri - Tarrasiidae

Taxonomy
Paratarrasius hibbardi was named by Lund and Melton (1982). Its type specimen is UM 5557, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is MV 7106, Supercrop Quarry, Bear Gulch, which is in an Arnsbergian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Paratarrasius.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Paratarrasius hibbardi Lund and Melton Jr. p. 486 figs. Pl 50, figs 1-5; text-figs 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
familyTarrasiidae
genusParatarrasius
specieshibbardi

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.

†Paratarrasius hibbardi Lund and Melton Jr. 1982
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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: 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) Paratarrasius hibbardi (90681 type locality: 116654 116655 116656 116659 116660 116763 227066)