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Palaeopetia lata
Taxonomy
Sinolesta lata was named by Hong and Wang (1988). Its type specimen is 84SHL301, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 84GT1, west Tuanwang Village, Laiyang City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China.
It was recombined as Palaeopetia lata by Mostovski (1995) and Grimaldi (2018).
It was recombined as Palaeopetia lata by Mostovski (1995) and Grimaldi (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Sinolesta lata Hong and Wang p. 388 figs. 3-4; Pl 1 fig 1 |
| 1990 | Sinolesta lata Hong and Wang p. 148 figs. Pl 10, fig 4; text-figs 6.5.146-147 |
| 1995 | Palaeopetia lata Mostovski p. 319 |
| 2018 | Palaeopetia lata Grimaldi p. 62 |
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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.
†Palaeopetia lata Hong and Wang 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||