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Neospirifer amplus
Taxonomy
Neospirifer amplus was named by Archbold and Thomas (1986). Its type specimen is UWA27130, a shell (Articulated specimen), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is UWA WC27, Mungadan Paddock, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Wandagee Formation of Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Neospirifer amplus Archbold and Thomas pp. 140-143 figs. 8A-D, 9A-C, 10A-G |
| 2004 | Neospirifer amplus Waterhouse |
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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.
†Neospirifer amplus Archbold and Thomas 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 3 | 52.8 | 48.8 | 56.5 | 53.3 | 3.87 |
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| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 272.30000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Western Australia) | Neospirifer amplus (84852) Spirifera sp. (131600) | |
| Kungurian | Australia (Western Australia) | Neospirifer amplus (84352 101213 type locality: 101220 101237 101412) Spirifera marcoui (106707 131881) |