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Peltoperleidus bellipinnis

Actinopteri - Louwoichthyiformes - Peltoperleididae

Taxonomy
Peltoperleidus bellipinnis was named by Bürgin (1992). Its type specimen is PIMUZ T.899, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, unspecified bed, which is in an Illyrian/Fassanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Switzerland. It is the type species of Altisolepis.

It was recombined as Altisolepis bellipinnis by Burgin (1992) and Mutter and Herzog (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Altisolepis bellipinnis Burgin figs. 1-3, 6A, 7A
1992Peltoperleidus bellipinnis Bürgin p. 84 figs. 91-102
2001Peltoperleidus bellipinnis Herzog p. 504 figs. 17-21
2004Altisolepis bellipinnis Mutter and Herzog p. 796 figs. 1-3, 6A, 6A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
orderLouwoichthyiformes
familyPeltoperleididae
genusPeltoperleidus
speciesbellipinnis

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.

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Diagnosis
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