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Pliopontos littoralis
Taxonomy
Pliopontos littoralis was named by Muizon (1983). Its type specimen is SAS 931, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Pliopontos littoralis Muizon p. 1101 figs. Fig. a-b |
| 2010 | Pliopontos littoralis Cozzuol p. 202 |
| 2011 | Pliopontos littoralis Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
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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.
†Pliopontos littoralis Muizon 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Reference: Uhen 2004 | |||||