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Taxonomy
Nucula alta was named by Termier and Termier (1959).
It was recombined as Nuculopsis alta by Boyd and Newell (1979).
It was recombined as Nuculopsis alta by Boyd and Newell (1979).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1959 | Nucula alta Termier and Termier p. 277 figs. pl 1, figs 1-5 |
| 1977 | Nucula alta Termier and Termier p. 79 figs. Pl 17, fig 3 |
| 1979 | Nuculopsis alta Boyd and Newell p. 4 |
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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.
†Nuculopsis alta Termier and Termier 1959
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 20 | 7.12 | 5.60 | 8.80 | 7.30 | 0.873 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wordian to the top of the Capitanian or 266.90000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wordian | Tunisia (Madanin) | Nuculopsis alta (41835 41852 41853 41974 41975 41976) | |
| Wordian - Capitanian | Tunisia (Madanin) | Nucula alta (42092) | |
| Capitanian | Tunisia (Madanin) | Nuculopsis alta (41962) |