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Taxonomy
Lepidoproetus (Lepidoproetus) splendens was named by Johnson and Fortey (2012). Its type specimen is NHM It 28956, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 10 m., Section 1, Jbel Oufatene, which is in a Pragian carbonate limestone in the Ihandar Formation of Morocco.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Lepidoproetus (Lepidoproetus) splendens Johnson and Fortey pp. 1041 - 1043 fig. 6.10–6.16 |
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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.
†Lepidoproetus (Lepidoproetus) splendens Johnson and Fortey 2012
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. G. Johnson and R. A. Fortey 2012 | Deeply concave anterior border with a thick upturned anterior edge, concave lateral borders with extensive sub-parallel ridging along the margins and on the genal spines. Glabella sub-cylindrical with sculpture of pronounced crescent shaped ridges (Fig. 6.16) on occipital ring and on the thoracic axial rings. Long axial spines on last five thoracic segments. |
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||