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Namaichthys sculpta
Taxonomy
Palaeoniscus sculptus was named by Egerton (1856). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is BMNH P. 12193, a dermal scale, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Styl Krantz, Cape Colony, BMNH fish, which is in a Wuchiapingian lacustrine shale in South Africa.
It was recombined as Namaichthys sculpta by Gardiner (1962).
It was recombined as Namaichthys sculpta by Gardiner (1962).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1856 | Palaeoniscus sculptus Egerton p. 227 figs. Pl. 28, figs 28-30, 32, 35, 36, 39-42 |
| 1962 | Namaichthys sculpta Gardiner p. 10 |
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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.
†Namaichthys sculpta Egerton 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.90000 to 254.17000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Palaeoniscus sculptus (type locality: 131108) |