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Plotopterum joaquinensis
Taxonomy
Plotopterum joaquinensis was named by Howard (1969). Its type specimen is LACM no. 8927, a limb element (upper end of left coracoid), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Pyramid Hill Sand Member grit zone, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Jewett Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Howard p. 68 |
| 1972 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Howard p. 7 |
| 1985 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Olson p. 205 |
| 1996 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Olson and Hasegawa p. 742 |
| 2002 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Goedert and Cornish p. 67 |
| 2008 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Sakurai et al. p. 87 |
| 2015 | Plotopterum joaquinensis Kaiser et al. p. 8 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.
†Plotopterum joaquinensis Howard 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875 | |||||