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Peltopleurus orientalis

Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae

Taxonomy
Peltopleurus orientalis was named by Su (1959). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Langmu, Tachai village, Tingshao of Shingyi Hsien, which is in a Longobardian marine shale in the Falang Formation of China.

It was recombined as Habroichthys orientalis by Tintori et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Peltopleurus orientalis Su p. 205 figs. Pl. 1, Figs, 1,2,3
2016Habroichthys orientalis Tintori et al. p. 193
2016Peltopleurus orientalis Xu and Ma p. 1767 fig. 4b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
orderPeltopleuriformes
familyPeltopleuridae
genusPeltopleurus
speciesorientalis

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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