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Mesotarbus angustus
Taxonomy
Geraphrynus angustus was named by Pocock (1911). Its type specimen is BMNH In. 31258 and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Coseley, near Dudley (Egginton coll), which is in a Westphalian B interdistributary bay shale in the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Mesotarbus angustus by Petrunkevitch (1953) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
It was recombined as Mesotarbus angustus by Petrunkevitch (1953) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1911 | Geraphrynus angustus Pocock p. 55 |
| 1953 | Mesotarbus angustus Petrunkevitch p. 53 figs. 58, 141 |
| 2013 | Mesotarbus angustus Dunlop et al. p. 47 |
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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.
†Mesotarbus angustus Pocock 1911
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Westphalian B or 316.90000 to 314.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian B | United Kingdom (Staffordshire) | Geraphrynus angustus (type locality: 34907) |