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Orbiculoidea ovalis
Taxonomy
Orbiculoidea ovalis was named by Cloud (1944). Its type specimen is YPM S-2695 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is King 20, Beds 5,7, Cerro Wencelao to El Indio, Las Delicias, which is in a Capitanian marine shale/limestone in the La Difunta Formation of Mexico.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1944 | Orbiculoidea ovalis Cloud p. 49 figs. Pl 17, figs 1-6 |
| 1994 | Orbiculoidea ovalis González-Arreola et al. p. 217 figs. Pl 2, figs j,k |
| 2019 | Orbiculoidea ovalis Torres-Martínez et al. |
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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.
†Orbiculoidea ovalis Cloud 1944
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Guadalupian | Mexico (Guerrero) | Orbiculoidea ovalis (232711) | |
| Capitanian | Mexico (Coahuila) | Orbiculoidea missouriensis (type locality: 62907) |