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Quadrospira postplicatus
Taxonomy
Neospirifer postplicatus was named by Archbold and Thomas (1986). Its type specimen is CPC24351, a shell (Articulated specimen), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BMR KNF73, Bruten's Old Yard, Cherrabun Station, which is in an Artinskian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Noonkanbah Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Neospirifer (Quadrospira) postplicatus by Archbold (1997); it was recombined as Quadrospira postplicatus by Williams et al. (2007).
It was recombined as Neospirifer (Quadrospira) postplicatus by Archbold (1997); it was recombined as Quadrospira postplicatus by Williams et al. (2007).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Neospirifer postplicatus Archbold and Thomas pp. 136-138 figs. 7A-H |
| 1997 | Neospirifer (Quadrospira) postplicatus Archbold p. 214 |
| 2007 | Quadrospira postplicatus Williams et al. |
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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.
†Quadrospira postplicatus Archbold and Thomas 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 39.5 |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 272.30000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Western Australia) | Neospirifer postplicatus (type locality: 84851) | |
| Kungurian | Australia (Western Australia) | Neospirifer postplicatus (38899 101236) |