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Macrodus expansus var. alsaticus Tornquist 1896

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Macrodus expansus var. alsaticus Tornquist, 1896 [invalid] Original source Tornquist (1896): 96 [630], pl. 19 fig. 9. Type stratum and age “[in der] schiefrigen Facies des Kohlenkalks ” (Tornquist 1895: 23) [shaly facies of the Carboniferous Limestone]; middle to upper Visean, Mississippian, Carboniferous (Amler 1987). Type locality “ Hohlweg unterhalb der Ferme [Bauernhof] Pütig ”; along the route from Bourbach-le-Haut to Masevaux, Département Haut-Rhin, France. Type material The whereabouts of the material studied by Tornquist (1896) are unknown. He stated the material as belonging to the “Geologische Landesanstalt Elsass-Lothringen”. Amler (1987) stated that the Tornquist collection in the Strasbourg Museum was destroyed in a fire (see also Hubmann 2014). Remarks Synonym of Parallelodon koeneni (Tornquist, 1896) according to Amler (1987).

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20750445

Authors: Friedel, Julia C., Neubauer, Thomas A., Amler, Michael R. W.

Institutions: University of Cologne, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Bavarian Natural History Collections, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Philipps University of Marburg

Topic: Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W7165147336

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