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Holophagus picenus

Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae

Taxonomy
Urocomus picenus was named by Costa (1862). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno, which is in an Alaunian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Dolomia Principale Formation of Italy.

It was recombined as Holophagus picenus by Rieppel (1985); it was recombined as Undina picena by Bassani (1895) and Schultze (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Urocomus picenus Costa p. 28 figs. Pl 6, figs 1B,C
1895Undina picena Bassani p. 180 figs. Pl 11, fig 1; pl 15, figs 56-63
1985Holophagus picenus Rieppel p. 712
2004Undina picena Schultze p. 487

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
classCoelacanthimorpha
orderCoelacanthiformesBerg 1937
familyLatimeriidaeBerg 1940
subfamilyLatimeriinaeBerg 1940
genusHolophagus
speciespicenus(Costa 1862)

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.

Holophagus picenus Costa 1862
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Alaunian or 215.56000 to 212.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Italy Urocomus picenus (type locality: 153108)