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Taxon: Family †Macrosemiidae Wagner, 1860, "nom. praeval." (fish)
 Entity: 

Authorship

Original name:  Wagner, 1860: 399. ["Gruppe Macrosemii"].
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Cope, 1889: 858.
Incorrect (erroneous) authorship:  Thiollière, 1858: 791. ["une troisième famille qui réduira un peu le nombre de ces formes génériques encore flottantes. Elle aura pour type le genre †Macrosemius, A."; no family name used, not available].

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018. Eur. J. Taxon. 466: 56 ("corrected").
Name in prevailing usage ("nom. praeval.") [cf. ICZN, 1999: Arts. 23.9, 35.5 (fam.)] Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018. Eur. J. Taxon. 466: 56 ("name in prevailing recent practice").

Types

Type: †Macrosemius (Genus) Agassiz, 1834 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 56. [implicit]

Synonyms

Synonymous name: †Eosemionotidae (Family) Bürgin, Eichenberger, Furrer & Tschanz, 1991 Ref: PBDB: 12 Dec 2013.
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