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Taxonomy
Pithanotaria starri was named by Kellogg (1925). Its type specimen is Stanford University 11 = CAS 13665, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Celite Company quarry 9, which is in a Messinian marine diatomite in the Sisquoc Formation of California. It is the type species of Pithanotaria.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Pithanotaria starri Kellogg p. 74 figs. Fig. 1-2, 4-8, Plate 12-13 |
| 1930 | Pithanotaria starri Hay |
| 1977 | Pithanotaria starri Repenning and Tedford p. 58 |
| 1989 | Pithanotaria starri Barnes p. 23 |
| 2006 | Pithanotaria starri Koretsky and Barnes p. 145 |
| 2008 | Pithanotaria starri Barnes p. 529 |
| 2011 | Pithanotaria starri Boessenecker p. 2 |
| 2015 | Pithanotaria starri Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Pithanotaria starri Berta et al. p. 215 figs. Fig. 5 |
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†Pithanotaria starri Kellogg 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available