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Tityrophoria nelsoni
Taxonomy
Tityrophoria nelsoni was named by Waterhouse (1971). Its type specimen is GSC 26417 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 57052, Section 116C-2, Tatonduk River, which is in an Artinskian marine horizon in the Jungle Creek Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Tityrophoria.
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2011-09-25; modified by M. Clapham on 2013-10-27
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Tityrophoria nelsoni Waterhouse |
| 1996 | Tityrophoria nelsoni Shi and Waterhouse p. 91 figs. Pl 14, figs 22-26; pl 15, figs 1-8; text-fig 30 |
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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.
†Tityrophoria nelsoni Waterhouse 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 4 | 15.5 | 14.0 | 19.0 | 14.8 | 2.27 |
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Williams et al. 2000 | |||||
Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Canada (Yukon) | Tityrophoria nelsoni (117715 117716 type locality: 117722 117728 117750) |