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Pteroplax cornutus

Eogyrinidae

Taxonomy
Pteroplax cornuta was named by Hancock and Atthey (1868). Its type specimen is H.M.G. 15.72, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hannah Pit, Newsham, which is in a Bashkirian terrestrial coal in the Middle Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was corrected as Pteroplax cornutus by Boyd (1980).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Pteroplax cornuta Hancock and Atthey
1970Pteroplax cornuta Panchen p. 48
1980Pteroplax cornutus Boyd

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
suborderEmbolomeri
superfamilyAnthracosauroideaCope 1872
familyEogyrinidaeWatson 1929
genusPteroplax
speciescornutus()

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.

†Pteroplax cornutus Hancock and Atthey 1868
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:19
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Bashkirian or 323.20000 to 315.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bashkirian323.2 - 315.2United Kingdom (England) Pteroplax cornuta (177139)