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Polygnathus bagialensis, new name for the homonymous P. praetrigonicus Savage, 1995, and Polygnathus abbessensis, new name for the homonymous P. borealis Savage, 1995 (Conodontes, Polygnathidae)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2015
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Savage (1995, p. 550, figure 8.8, 8.9) named a conodont Polygnathus praetrigonicus from the Middle Devonian Wadleigh Limestone, southeastern Alaska. This name is now known to be a junior homonym of Polygnathus praetrigonicus Bardashev (1992, p. 56, 57, pl. 2, figs. 32–34), a taxon from the Middle Devonian of the Zeravshan Range, southern Tien-Shan. The southeastern Alaskan fossil is clearly a different species and I here rename it as Polygnathus bagialensis after Port Bagial, near Alberto Island from where the holotype of the species was collected.
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