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Orbiculoidea elegans
Taxonomy
Orbiculoidea elegans was named by Liao (1980). Its type specimen is NIGP 43389 and is a mold. Its type locality is Heilajia Section Bed 10 (HG-3), Liuzhi County, which is in a Griesbachian marine siliciclastic in the Feixianguan Formation of China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1980 | Orbiculoidea elegans Liao p. 252 figs. Pl 1, figs 20-22 |
| 2014 | Orbiculoidea elegans Zhang et al. p. 484 figs. 4A-O |
| 2019 | Orbiculoidea elegans Foster et al. p. 619 fig. 4F |
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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.
†Orbiculoidea elegans Liao 1980
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy 2009, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Changhsingian to the top of the Griesbachian or 254.17000 to 250.50000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Changhsingian | China (Guizhou) | Orbiculoidea elegans (145677 145681) | |
| Griesbachian | China (Guizhou) | Orbiculoidea elegans (type locality: 111977 112124 201000 201002 201007 201012 201013) |