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Hulettia americana

Taxonomy
Pholidophorus americanus was named by Eastman (1899). Its type specimen is NMNH 4788a, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Three-quarters mile southeast of Hot Springs, which is in a Bathonian coastal sandstone in the Sundance Formation of South Dakota. It is the type species of Hulettia.

It was recombined as Hulettia americana by Schaeffer and Patterson (1984).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Pholidophorus americanus Eastman p. 398 figs. 45-47
1902Pholidophorus americanus Hay p. 383
1984Hulettia americana Schaeffer and Patterson p. 14 figs. 4-18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
—Actinopterygii()
—HalecostomiRegan 1903
genusHulettia
speciesamericana()

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.

†Hulettia americana Eastman 1899
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
B. Schaeffer and C. Patterson 1984As genus, only species.