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Altisolepis elongignathus
Taxonomy
Peltoperleidus elongignathus was named by Bürgin (1992). Its type specimen is PIMUZ T.168, a partial skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, unspecified bed, which is in an Illyrian/Fassanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Switzerland.
It was recombined as Altisolepis elongignathus by Mutter and Herzog (2004).
It was recombined as Altisolepis elongignathus by Mutter and Herzog (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1992 | Peltoperleidus elongignathus Bürgin p. 90 figs. 103-105 |
| 2004 | Altisolepis elongignathus Mutter and Herzog p. 796 fig. 5 |
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†Altisolepis elongignathus Bürgin 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available