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Quadrospira plicatus
Taxonomy
Neospirifer plicatus was named by Archbold and Thomas (1986). Its type specimen is CPC24340, a shell (Articulated specimen), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BMR ML87, Lyndon River, Mia Mia Homestead, which is in an Artinskian marine siliciclastic in the Madeline Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Neospirifer (Quadrospira) plicatus by Archbold (1997); it was recombined as Quadrospira plicata by Waterhouse (2004); it was recombined as Quadrospira plicatus by Williams et al. (2007).
It was recombined as Neospirifer (Quadrospira) plicatus by Archbold (1997); it was recombined as Quadrospira plicata by Waterhouse (2004); it was recombined as Quadrospira plicatus by Williams et al. (2007).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Neospirifer plicatus Archbold and Thomas pp. 133-136 figs. 5A-K, 6A-I |
| 1997 | Neospirifer (Quadrospira) plicatus Archbold p. 214 |
| 2004 | Quadrospira plicata Waterhouse |
| 2007 | Quadrospira plicatus 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 plicatus Archbold and Thomas 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 38.0 | 31.4 | 45.9 | 38.7 | 10.2 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Western Australia) | Neospirifer plicatus (85032 type locality: 85318 85929 85984) |