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Laidleria gracilis
Taxonomy
Laidleria gracilis was named by Kitching (1957). Its type specimen is AM 4313, a partial skeleton (skull and anterior postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Elucwecwe, which is in an Anisian terrestrial sandstone in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Laidleria.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1957 | Laidleria gracilis Kitching p. 68 figs. 16-19 |
| 1998 | Laidleria gracilis Warren p. 180 |
| 2000 | Laidleria gracilis Schoch and Milner p. 81 |
| 2003 | Laidleria gracilis Damiani and Rubidge p. 25 |
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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.
†Laidleria gracilis Kitching 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004 | |||||