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Taxonomy
Prostylopyga gigantea was named by Piton (1940). Its type specimen is Coll. Piton 704, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France. It is the type species of Prostylopyga.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Prostylopyga gigantea Piton pp. 121-123 fig. 6 |
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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.
†Prostylopyga gigantea Piton 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available