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Tornquistia magna
Taxonomy
Tornquistia magna was named by Archbold (1980). Its type specimen is CPC 19137, a shell (Internal mould of conjoined shell), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is BMR G279, Moogooree Homestead, which is in a Kungurian coastal shale in the Bulgadoo Formation of Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1980 | Tornquistia magna Archbold p. 186 figs. Pl 25, figs 5-13 |
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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.
†Tornquistia magna Archbold 1980
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 2 | 5.74 | 5.40 | 6.10 | 5.75 | 0.495 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 274.40000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Western Australia) | Tornquistia magna (66120) | |
| Kungurian | Australia (Western Australia) | Tornquistia magna (type locality: 84490 95034) |