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Lepidopus proargenteus
Taxonomy
Lepidopus proargenteus was named by Arambourg (1927). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Raz-el-Ain, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Raz-el-Ain Formation of Algeria.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1927 | Lepidopus proargenteus Arambourg |
| 1996 | Lepidopus proargenteus Gaudant et al. p. 141 |
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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.
†Lepidopus proargenteus Arambourg 1927
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Messinian or 7.24600 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Messinian | Algeria (Oran) | Lepidopus proargenteus (type locality: 59256) | |
| Messinian | Italy | Lepidopus proargenteus (186575) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Sicile) | Lepidopus proargenteus (210669) |