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Oryctochlus contiguus
Taxonomy
Oryctochlus contiguus was named by Zhang (1991). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum L86813, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Tuanwang, Laiyang City (Shandong Prov. Museum coll.), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1991 | Oryctochlus contiguus Zhang p. 561 figs. Pl 2, fig 5; pl 3, figs 1,2; text-figs 4,5 |
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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.
†Oryctochlus contiguus Zhang 1991
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||