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Primaspis ascitus
Taxonomy
Primaspis ascitus was named by Whittington (1956) [Paratypes: USNM 116516a-h]. Its type specimen is USNM 116515, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 10, Greenmount Church area, which is in a Chatfieldian carbonate shale in the Martinsburg Formation of Virginia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Primaspis ascitus Whittington p. 199 figs. Pl. 1, figs. 1, 2, 5, 6 |
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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.
†Primaspis ascitus Whittington 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Harrington et al. 1959 | |||||
Age range: Chatfieldian or 453.80000 to 451.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chatfieldian | USA (Virginia) | Primaspis ascitus (type locality: 105205) |