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Rhopalochlaenius phalanthus
Taxonomy
Rhopalochlaenius phalanthus was named by Zhang et al. (1994). Its type specimen is Shandong Geological Museum K0200, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection K0 (Shandong Geological Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China. It is the type species of Rhopalochlaenius.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Rhopalochlaenius phalanthus Zhang et al. p. 85 figs. Pl 11, fig 1; text-fig 60 |
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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.
†Rhopalochlaenius phalanthus Zhang et al. 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | Rhopalochlaenius phalanthus (type locality: 138944) |