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Remopleurides plaesiourus
Taxonomy
Remopleurides plaesiourus was named by Whittington (1959) [Paratypes: USNM 137678a-e]. Its type specimen is USNM 137677, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 9, Greenmount Church area, which is in a Chatfieldian/Edenian carbonate shale in the Martinsburg Formation of Virginia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1959 | Remopleurides plaesiourus Whittington p. 412 figs. Pl. 5, figs. 3-5 |
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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.
†Remopleurides plaesiourus Whittington 1959
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Chatfieldian or 453.80000 to 451.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chatfieldian | USA (Virginia) | Remopleurides plaesiourus (105205 105207) | |
| Chatfieldian - Edenian | USA (Virginia) | Remopleurides plaesiourus (type locality: 105204) |