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Ptychodus mahakalensis
Taxonomy
Ptychodus mahakalensis was named by Chiplonkar and Ghare (1977). Its type specimen is Bd t/1, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mahakal, which is in a Cretaceous marine shale in the Nimar Formation of India.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Ptychodus mahakalensis Chiplonkar and Ghare p. 131 figs. Plate 1, Figs. 2 & 3 |
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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.
†Ptychodus mahakalensis Chiplonkar and Ghare 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Cretaceous or 145.00000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Cretaceous | India | Ptychodus mahakalensis (type locality: 91555) |