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Onchocephalus palupus
Taxonomy
Onchocephalus palupus was named by Fritz (1968). Its type specimen is USNM 153529, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pioche Shale, Bed 2, which is in a Dyeran carbonate limestone in the Pioche Shale Formation of Nevada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1968 | Onchocephalus palupus Fritz pp. 224-225 figs. Pl. 36, figs. 1-3 |
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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.
†Onchocephalus palupus Fritz 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||