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Chinlea sorenseni

Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae

Taxonomy
Chinlea sorenseni was named by Schaeffer (1967). Its type specimen is AMNH 5652, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Little Valley fish locality, which is in a Norian/Rhaetian channel siltstone in the Chinle Formation of Utah.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Chinlea sorenseni Schaeffer p. 323
1986Chinlea sorenseni Murry
1998Chinlea sorenseni Forey p. 305
2004Chinlea sorenseni Schultze p. 486

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
subclassSarcopterygii()
classCoelacanthimorpha
orderCoelacanthiformesBerg 1937
suborderLatimeroideiSchultze 1993
familyMawsoniidaeSchultze 1993
genusChinlea
speciessorenseni

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.

Chinlea sorenseni Schaeffer 1967
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Norian to the top of the Rhaetian or 228.00000 to 201.30000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5USA (Texas) Macropoma sp. (135657)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Texas) Chinlea sorenseni (94493)
Norian - Rhaetian228.0 - 201.3USA (Utah) Chinlea sorenseni (type locality: 135711)
Norian - Rhaetian228.0 - 201.3USA (Colorado) Chinlea sorenseni (135699 135712)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3USA (Utah) Chinlea sorenseni (218214)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3USA (New Mexico) Chinlea sorenseni (48422)