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Shokawa ikoi
Taxonomy
Shokawa ikoi was named by Evans and Manabe (1999). Its type specimen is IBEF VP 3, a set of postcrania (a postcranial skeleton without a skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is KO2 locality, Shokawa Village, Kobudani Valley, which is in a Hauterivian/Aptian fine channel fill sandstone/mudstone in the Okurodani Formation of Japan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Shokawa ikoi Evans and Manabe pp. 103-109 figs. 1-7 |
| 2008 | Shokawa ikoi Gao and Ksepka p. 749 |
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†Shokawa ikoi Evans and Manabe 1999
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. E. Evans and M. Manabe 1999 | A small choristoderan reptile characterised by the following combination of features: at least 16 cervical vertebrae, of which most or all bear small bicapitate ribs; cylindrical vertebral centra persistently separated from the neural arches except in the neck; caudal vertebrae with deep descending ventral flanges; anterior caudals with tall slender neural spines; interclavicle rhomboid with clavicles meeting at a strong angle in the ventral midline; strong quadrangular coracoids and reduced scapular blades; humerus, forearm and hand relatively short and broad; ilium with narrow vertical blade bearing strong vertical striations; ribs, limb bones and gastralia pachyostotic |