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Cundaria aquilaformis
Taxonomy
Cundaria aquilaformis was named by Archbold (1996). Its type specimen is GSWA F232/1, a valve (Dorsal valve, external mould with associated ventral interarea and complete internal mould of conjoined shell), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Simpson Knolls, Simpson Collection, Mingenew, which is in a Kungurian coastal sandstone in the Mingenew Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Cundaria.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Cundaria aquilaformis Archbold pp. 30-32 figs. 7A-K |
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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.
†Cundaria aquilaformis Archbold 1996
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 21.4 | 20.2 | 22.6 | 21.4 | 1.70 |
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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 (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Western Australia) | Cundaria aquilaformis (66120) | |
| Kungurian | Australia (Western Australia) | Spirifera avicula (type locality: 101512) |