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Taxonomy
Triproetus altasulcus was named by Brezinski (1992). Its type specimen is USNM 447537, a pygidium, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM712p, Hill 5021, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains, which is in an Artinskian slope limestone in the Skinner Ranch Formation of Texas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1992 | Triproetus altasulcus Brezinski p. 934 figs. 5.25-5.31 |
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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.
†Triproetus altasulcus Brezinski 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Sakmarian | USA (Texas) | Triproetus altasulcus (102612) | |
| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Triproetus altasulcus (43544 43559 type locality: 75931 102617) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Triproetus altasulcus (43558 43586) |