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Pseudodalatias barnstonensis

Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Pseudodalatiidae

Taxonomy
Dalatias barnstonensis was named by Sykes (1971). Its type specimen is BMNH P51407, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Barnstone railway cutting, which is in a Rhaetian coastal siliciclastic in the Westbury Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Pseudodalatias barnstonensis by Reif (1978), Tintori (1980), Duffin and Delsate (1993) and Diependaal and Reumer (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Dalatias barnstonensis Sykes p. 13 figs. Pl 2, fig 1
1974Dalatias barnstonensis Sykes p. 39
1978Pseudodalatias barnstonensis Reif p. 55
1980Pseudodalatias barnstonensis Tintori p. 22 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-6
1993Pseudodalatias barnstonensis Duffin and Delsate p. 34 figs. pl. 1, figs. 1-2
2021Pseudodalatias barnstonensis Diependaal and Reumer p. 2 fig. 1k

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classChondrichthyes
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii()
orderHybodontiformes(Patterson 1966)
familyPseudodalatiidae
genusPseudodalatias
speciesbarnstonensis()

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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