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Gigantopora
Taxonomy
Gigantopora is a genus. It is extant. It is the type genus of Gigantoporidae.
It was assigned to Cheilostomata by Sepkoski (2002); and to Gigantoporidae by Canu and Bassler (1935), Brown (1952), Bassler (1953), Brown (1958), Bock (2006), Gordon and Taylor (2015) and Di Martino and Taylor (2015).
It was assigned to Cheilostomata by Sepkoski (2002); and to Gigantoporidae by Canu and Bassler (1935), Brown (1952), Bassler (1953), Brown (1958), Bock (2006), Gordon and Taylor (2015) and Di Martino and Taylor (2015).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1903 | Galeopsis Jullien |
1935 | Gigantopora Canu and Bassler |
1952 | Gigantopora Brown |
1953 | Gigantopora Bassler p. G198 |
1958 | Gigantopora Brown |
2002 | Galeopsis Sepkoski |
2002 | Gigantopora Sepkoski |
2006 | Gigantopora Bock |
2015 | Gigantopora Di Martino and Taylor |
2015 | Gigantopora Gordon and Taylor |
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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.
G. Gigantopora
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†Gigantopora cribraria MacGillivray 1895
†Gigantopora elongata Canu and Bassler 1935
†Gigantopora grandis Gordon and Taylor 2015
†Gigantopora hexagonalis Canu and Bassler 1935
†Gigantopora hystrix Canu and Bassler 1935
†Gigantopora milenae Di Martino and Taylor 2015
†Gigantopora minutiporosa Canu and Bassler 1935
†Gigantopora modesta Gordon and Taylor 2015
†Gigantopora perforata Canu and Bassler 1935
Gigantopora polymorpha Busk 1884
†Gigantopora tuberculosa Maplestone 1902
Invalid names: Galeopsis Jullien 1903 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Smith et al. 2006, Nesnidal et al. 2013 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Calabrian or 55.80000 to 0.77400 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma
Collections (18 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Early/Lower Eocene | New Zealand (Chatham Island) | G. modesta, G. grandis (172944) | |
Bartonian | USA (Florida) | G. cyclops (7324) | |
Oligocene | New Zealand (North-West Nelson) | G. polymorpha (173837) | |
Oligocene - Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | G. columnata (173510) G. tuberculosa (173512) | |
Chattian | Australia (Victoria) | G. elongata (174148) G. hexagonalis, G. perforata, G. minutiporosa (174147) G. minutiporosa (174143) | |
Miocene - Oligocene | Australia (Victoria) | G. cribraria (173519) G. sp. (173502) G. tuberculosa (173504 173506) | |
Langhian | Australia (Victoria) | G. hystrix, G. hexagonalis, G. perforata (174139) | |
Middle Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | G. cribraria (166365) | |
Serravallian | Indonesia | G. milenae (173650 173658) | |
Pliocene | New Zealand | G. biturrita (173737) | |
Calabrian | Costa Rica (Limon) | G. fenestrata (79845) |