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Atomodesma variabile
Taxonomy
Atomodesma variabilis was named by Wanner (1922). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Basleo (Wanner collection), which is in an Artinskian marine horizon in Indonesia.
It was misspelled as Atomodesma variabilis by Muromtseva (1981) and Muromtseva and Guskov (1984); it was corrected as Atomodesma variabile by Waterhouse (1978), Waterhouse (1987), Astafieva (1993) and Biakov and Kutygin (2020).
It was misspelled as Atomodesma variabilis by Muromtseva (1981) and Muromtseva and Guskov (1984); it was corrected as Atomodesma variabile by Waterhouse (1978), Waterhouse (1987), Astafieva (1993) and Biakov and Kutygin (2020).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1922 | Atomodesma variabilis Wanner p. 64 figs. Pl 153, figs 2-4; text-fig 13 |
| 1959 | Atomodesma variabilis Kashirtsev p. 73 figs. Pl 44, figs 1,2 |
| 1978 | Atomodesma variabile Waterhouse p. 132 figs. Pl 25, figs 7,14-16 |
| 1981 | Atomodesma variabilis Muromtseva p. 31 figs. Pl 7, figs 14,15 |
| 1984 | Atomodesma variabilis Muromtseva and Guskov p. 47 figs. Pl 7, fig 9; pl 8, figs 3-5; pl 21, fig 5; pl 23, fig 24b |
| 1987 | Atomodesma variabile Waterhouse p. 143 figs. Pl 1, fig 26; pl 3, figs 5,6 |
| 1993 | Atomodesma variabile Astafieva p. 81 figs. Pl 1, figs 7a,b |
| 2020 | Atomodesma variabile Biakov and Kutygin p. 462 fig. 2 |
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†Atomodesma variabile Wanner 1922
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 2 | 23.8 | 11.3 | 50.0 | 30.6 | 27.4 |
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| References: Eaton 1871, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Changhsingian or 290.10000 to 252.17000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artinskian | Indonesia | Atomodesma variabilis (118268) | |
| Wuchiapingian | Australia (Queensland) | Atomodesma variabile (98099 98101 120333 120335 120379 120536 120539 120661 120667) | |
| Wuchiapingian | Russian Federation | Atomodesma variabile (214598) | |
| Changhsingian | Nepal | Atomodesma variabile (43283) |