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Protopeltidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Protopeltinae was named by Crowson (1966). It is extant.
It was reranked as the family Protopeltidae by Gimmel et al. (2019) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Trogossitidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Cleroidea by Gimmel et al. (2019) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was reranked as the family Protopeltidae by Gimmel et al. (2019) and Cai et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Trogossitidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995); and to Cleroidea by Gimmel et al. (2019) and Cai et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1966 | Protopeltinae Crowson |
| 1995 | Protopeltinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr. |
| 2019 | Protopeltidae Gimmel et al. |
| 2022 | Protopeltidae Cai et al. |
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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.
Fm. Protopeltidae Crowson 1966
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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Collections
No collection or age range data are available