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Taxonomy
Lopha murakamii was named by Nakazawa and Newell (1968). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kawanishi Primary School, Gujo, Oe-cho, Kyoto Prefecture, which is in a Changhsingian marine shale in the Gujo Formation of Japan.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1968 | Lopha murakamii Nakazawa and Newell p. 82 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-4,6-8 |
| 1982 | Lopha murakamii Li et al. p. 320 figs. Pl 122, figs 7-9 |
| 1993 | Lopha murakamii Wang p. 470 figs. Pl 3, figs 9-11 |
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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.
†Lopha murakamii Nakazawa and Newell 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 4 | 13.9 | 9.00 | 24.7 | 12.9 | 6.82 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.90000 to 252.17000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wuchiapingian | China (Jiangsu) | Lopha murakamii (102128) | |
| Wuchiapingian | China (Hunan) | Lopha murakamii (97261 107816 107820 107826) | |
| Changhsingian | Japan | Lopha murakamii (type locality: 114491) | |
| Changhsingian | China (Fujian) | Lopha murakamii (95481 95483 95488) |