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Spinofacia pectinatus

Taxonomy
Spinofacia pectinatus was named by Mickle (2011). Its type specimen is KUVP 150475, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Clay Pits, Lake Mountains, which is in a Bashkirian marginal marine shale in the Manning Canyon Formation of Utah. It is the type species of Spinofacia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2011Spinofacia pectinatus Mickle p. 963 figs. 2-5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
genusSpinofacia
speciespectinatus

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Spinofacia pectinatus Mickle 2011
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available