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Blanus thomaskelleri
Taxonomy
Blanus thomaskelleri was named by Cernansky et al. (2015). Its type specimen is PAL EV 2013/271, a mandible (incomplete right dentary lacking the anterior portion), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Amöneburg, which is in a MN 2 lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Wiesbaden Formation of Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2015 | Blanus thomaskelleri Cernansky et al. pp. 104-105 fig. 5 |
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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.
†Blanus thomaskelleri Cernansky et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Cernansky et al. 2015 | Small species of Blanus distinguished from other species of this genus by its extremely short coronoid process which does not rise strongly dorsally. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Pianka and Vitt 2003, Behler and King 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||