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Arctops watsoni
Taxonomy
Arctops watsoni was named by Brink and Kitching (1953). Its type specimen is BP/1/263, a skull (Complete skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aasvoëlkrans, Murraysburg (Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone), which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial siliciclastic in South Africa.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1953 | Arctops watsoni Brink and Kitching p. 25 |
1989 | Arctops watsoni Sigogneau-Russell |
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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.
†Arctops watsoni Brink and Kitching 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.90000 to 254.17000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Arctops willistoni (171377) | |
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Arctops watsoni (type locality: 178695) |