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Remopleurides simulus
Taxonomy
Remopleurides simulus was named by Whittington (1959) [Paratypes: USNM 137688a-c]. Its type specimen is USNM 137687, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 3. south side of road, 0.2 mile east of Strasburg Junction, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the Edinburg Formation of Virginia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1959 | Remopleurides simulus Whittington p. 426 figs. Pl. 17, figs. 1, 2, 4, 5 |
| 1964 | Remopleurides similus Ross, Jr. and Longwell |
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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 simulus Whittington 1959
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Whiterockian to the top of the Turinian or 471.30000 to 453.80000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Whiterockian | USA (Nevada) | Remopleurides similus (104283 104284) Remopleurides simulus (301) | |
| Turinian | USA (Virginia) | Remopleurides simulus (type locality: 73342) |