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Moythomasia devonica

Actinopteri

Taxonomy
Palaeoniscus devonicus was named by Clarke (1885). It is not extant. Its type specimen is ?MBSNS E 2044, a partial skeleton (Imperfect fish). Its type locality is Railway cutting, Sparta, which is in a Devonian marine shale in the Naples Formation of New York.

It was recombined as Rhadinichthys devonicus by Hussakof and Bryant (1918); it was recombined as Moythomasia devonica by Gardiner (1963).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Palaeoniscus devonicus Clarke
1918Rhadinichthys devonicus Hussakof and Bryant
1963Moythomasia devonica Gardiner

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
genusMoythomasiaGross 1950
speciesdevonica()

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.

†Moythomasia devonica Clarke 1885
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2004-08-17 14:52:40
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:42
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
Reference: Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Frasnian to the top of the Late/Upper Frasnian or 382.70000 to 376.10000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Frasnian383.7 - 382.4Iran Moythomasia devonica (226048)
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2USA (New York) Palaeoniscus devonicus (226073)
Late/Upper Devonian382.7 - 358.9USA (New York) Palaeoniscus devonicus (226072)
Middle Frasnian382.4 - 379.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie Voivodship) Moythomasia devonica (226394)
Late/Upper Frasnian379.5 - 376.1Canada (Ontario) Moythomasia devonica (226507)