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Lepidotus leedsi
Taxonomy
Lepidotus leedsi was named by Woodward (1895). Its type specimen is BMNH P.6837, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Peterborough area, Leeds Collection, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1895 | Lepidotus leedsi Woodward p. 99 figs. 20-21 |
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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.
†Lepidotus leedsi Woodward 1895
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Callovian to the top of the Kimmeridgian or 164.70000 to 152.10000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Callovian | United Kingdom (England) | Lepidotus leedsi (type locality: 109800) | |
| Kimmeridgian | United Kingdom | Lepidotus leedsi (131882) |