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Ascetopeltis barkingensis
Taxonomy
Ascetopeltis barkingensis was named by Owens (1973). Its type specimen is SM A43029, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Barking, Dent, which is in an Ashgill marine mudstone in the Ashgill Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Ascetopeltis barkingensis Owens pp. 26 - 27 figs. Pl. 5, figs. 2-5 |
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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.
†Ascetopeltis barkingensis Owens 1973
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. M. Owens 1973 | Short (sag.) preglabellar field, about! length (sag.) of anterior border; small palpebral lobe; posterior branches of facial sutures with e and g as independent angles; occipital ring not narrowed laterally; sculpture of fine striations, not interspersed with granules. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||