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Caturus dartoni
Taxonomy
Amiopsis dartoni was named by Eastman (1899). Its type specimen is NMNH 4792, 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 was recombined as Caturus dartoni by Schaeffer and Patterson (1984).
It was recombined as Caturus dartoni by Schaeffer and Patterson (1984).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1899 | Amiopsis dartoni Eastman p. 406 figs. Pl 48, figs 1,2 |
| 1902 | Amiopsis dartoni Hay p. 380 |
| 1984 | Caturus dartoni Schaeffer and Patterson p. 38 fig. 20,21 |
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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.
†Caturus dartoni Eastman 1899
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||