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Cyamodus muensteri
Taxonomy
Placodus muensteri was named by Agassiz (1834). Its type specimen is BSP AS VII 1210, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bindlacher Berg, which is in an Illyrian marine horizon in the Meissner Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Cyamodus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Cyamodus rostratus by Kuhn (1969) and Kuhn (1971); it was recombined as Cyamodus muensteri by Rieppel (2001).
It was synonymized subjectively with Cyamodus rostratus by Kuhn (1969) and Kuhn (1971); it was recombined as Cyamodus muensteri by Rieppel (2001).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1834 | Placodus muensteri Agassiz p. 17 |
1839 | Placodus muensteri Agassiz figs. Plate 71, figs 1-5 |
1843 | Placodus munsteri Agassiz p. 220 |
1859 | Placodus laticeps Owen |
1861 | Placodus laticeps Owen p. 237 |
1869 | Placodus muensteri Seeley p. 135 |
1934 | Cyamodus laticeps Swinton p. 63 |
1999 | Cyamodus laticeps Rieppel and Hagdorn p. 337 |
2001 | Cyamodus muensteri Rieppel pp. 74-75 |
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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.
†Cyamodus muensteri Agassiz 1834
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Invalid names: Cyamodus laticeps Owen 1859 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available