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Cartorhium orbiculatum
Taxonomy
Cartorhium orbiculatum was named by Cooper and Grant (1976). Its type specimen is USNM 152886b, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM706d, Hess Canyon, Glass Mountains, which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1976 | Cartorhium orbiculatum Cooper and Grant p. 2198 figs. Pl 617, figs 1-20 |
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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.
†Cartorhium orbiculatum Cooper and Grant 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 7 | 7.99 | 2.90 | 22.0 | 6.80 | 8.08 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||