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Mesotaphraspis parva
Taxonomy
Mesotaphraspis parva was named by Whittington and Evitt (1953). Its type specimen is USNM 116498 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 2. edge of quarry, just north of RR tracks ΒΌ mile west of Strasburg Junction, which is in an Ashbyan carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia. It is the type species of Mesotaphraspis.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Mesotaphraspis parva Whittington and Evitt pp. 46-48 figs. pl. 3 f. 31-36; pl. 4; txt. f 11 |
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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.
†Mesotaphraspis parva Whittington and Evitt 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Alvarez et al. 2008 | |||||
Age range: Turinian or 457.30000 to 453.80000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Turinian | USA (Virginia) | Mesotaphraspis parva (73342) | |
| Ashbyan | USA (Virginia) | Mesotaphraspis parva (type locality: 73341) | |
| Blackriveran | USA (Virginia) | Mesotaphraspis parva (105255) |