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Archaeophiomusium bispinosum
Taxonomy
Archaeophiomusium bispinosum was named by Mayou (1969). Its type specimen is Holotype BYU 1153, paratype is BYU 1154, Department of Geology, Brigham Young University,Utah and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Archaeophiomusium bispinosum type locality, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in the Pequop Formation of Nevada.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Archaeophiomusium bispinosum Mayou pp. 937-940 figs. Text-figs 3-5, pl. 113 figs. 1,2,4 |
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†Archaeophiomusium bispinosum Mayou 1969
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. V. Mayou 1969 | Small ophiuroids with a circular shaped disk and 56 aboral disk plates arranged around a centrodorsal plate. The ophiuroid has five thin radially oriented arms on a pair of spines attached to each side plate. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Warner 1982, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | USA (Nevada) | Archaeophiomusium bispinosum (type locality: 97421) |