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Lonchocephalus planus
Taxonomy
Lonchocephalus planus was named by Tasch (1951). Its type specimen is USNM 115610, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Highway No. 322 near Waddle, Bed 11.12, which is in a Merioneth shallow subtidal limestone in the Warrior Formation of Pennsylvania.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1951 | Lonchocephalus planus Tasch pp. 299 - 300 figs. Plate 46, figures 1-2 |
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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.
†Lonchocephalus planus Tasch 1951
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||