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Aperispirifer lethamensis

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Taxonomy
Aperispirifer lethamensis was named by Waterhouse (1968). Its type specimen is NZGS BR 1314, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GS9697, Letham Burn (D44/f9001), which is in a Wordian marine horizon in the Mangarewa Formation of New Zealand.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Aperispirifer lethamensis Waterhouse p. 38 figs. Pl 3, figs 13,15; pl 4, figs 1-7; pl 5, figs 1-8; pl 6, figs 2,3; pl 17, fig 2; text-figs 11-14
1982Aperispirifer lethamensis Waterhouse p. 55 fig. 29C
1987Aperispirifer lethamensis Waterhouse p. 21 figs. Pl 5, figs 1-3,5-8,10
2004Aperispirifer lethamensis Waterhouse

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classRhynchonellataWilliams et al. 1996
orderSpiriferida
suborderSpiriferidina
superfamilySpiriferoidea()
familyTrigonotretidae
subfamilyTrigonotretinae
genusAperispirifer
specieslethamensis

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.

†Aperispirifer lethamensis Waterhouse 1968
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. B. Waterhouse 1987Large transverse and alate shells with moderately well defined and persistent plicae with coarse to usually fine and numerous costae.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitep
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yesp
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Created: 2004-02-28 14:12:52
Modified: 2004-02-28 16:12:52
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013

Age range: base of the Kungurian to the top of the Wuchiapingian or 283.30000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections (35 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4New Zealand (Southland) Neospirifer sp. A (52844)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28New Zealand (Southland) Aperispirifer lethamensis (41780 41785 type locality: 41796) Neospirifer sp. A (41767)
Capitanian264.28 - 259.51New Zealand (Southland) Neospirifer sp. A (41777)
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Australia (Queensland) Aperispirifer lethamensis (98098 98100 98101 101570 104772 105009 120329 120330 120331 120332 120335 120336 120338 120339 120340 120341 120342 120346 120379 120535 120536 120538 120656 120657 120660 120661 120666 120674) Trigonotreta sp. D (103145)