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Blosyropsis billingsi
Taxonomy
Blosyropsis billingsi was named by Whittington (1965). Its type specimen is GSC 18250, an exoskeleton (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Table Point, "Middle Table Head", 17 feet, which is in a Chazyan slope limestone in the Table Cove Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Blosyropsis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Blosyropsis billingsi Whittington p. 378 figs. Pl. 42, figs. 7-8 |
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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.
†Blosyropsis billingsi Whittington 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Whiterockian or 470.00000 to 457.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chazyan | Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Blosyropsis billingsi (type locality: 104800 104861) | |
| Whiterockian | Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Blosyropsis billingsi (104862 104868) |