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Aristerella nitidula
Taxonomy
Aristerella nitidula was named by Ulrich (1894) [DISTRIBUTION: Ordovician; Minnesota.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chatfield, Ctenodonta Beds, which is in a Rocklandian marine shale/limestone in the Decorah Formation of Minnesota. It is the type species of Aristerella.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1894 | Aristerella nitidula Ulrich p. 524 figs. pl. 35 f. 30 - 39 |
| 1969 | Aristerella nitidula Cox et al. p. N394 |
| 1971 | Aristerella nitidula Pojeta figs. pl. 11 f. 15 - 24 |
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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.
†Aristerella nitidula Ulrich 1894
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: Rocklandian or 457.30000 to 449.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Rocklandian | USA (Minnesota) | Aristerella nitidula (type locality: 154413) |