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Costatumulus meritus
Taxonomy
Costatumulus meritus was named by Waterhouse (1986). Its type specimen is UQF 74009 and is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is UQ L997, Cattle Creek, upstream from Consuelo Creek, which is in an Artinskian marine shale in the Sirius Formation of Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Costatumulus meritus Waterhouse pp. 59-60 figs. Pl 9, figs 5-10 |
| 1998 | Costatumulus meritus Briggs p. 160 figs. 80A-H |
| 2012 | Costatumulus meritus Li et al. |
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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.
†Costatumulus meritus Waterhouse 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004, Williams et al. 2000 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Wordian or 290.10000 to 264.28000 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (New South Wales) | Cancrinella farleyensis (102760 102761) Costatumulus meritus (103711 132483) | |
| Artinskian | Australia (Queensland) | Costatumulus meritus (type locality: 101577 102656 102918 103185 103187 103214 103235 103352 103357 103377 103379 103380 103545 103986 104729 104730) Costatumulus tumidus (104773) | |
| Wordian | Australia (Queensland) | Costatumulus meritus (102943) |