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Taxonomy
Nuculopsis oviformis was named by Waterhouse (1964). Its type specimen is NZGS TM2447 and is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is GS6072, Letham Burn (D44/f9623), which is in a Capitanian marine horizon in the Mangarewa Formation of New Zealand.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1964 | Nuculopsis oviformis Waterhouse p. 634 figs. Pl 96, figs 6-8; text-fig 3 |
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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.
†Nuculopsis oviformis Waterhouse 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 1 | 9.20 | - | - | - | - | |
| valve height | 6 | 7.68 | 6.70 | 8.80 | 7.90 | 0.828 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wordian to the top of the Capitanian or 266.90000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wordian | New Zealand (Southland) | Nuculopsis oviformis (41767) | |
| Capitanian | New Zealand (Southland) | Nuculopsis oviformis (41777 type locality: 41778 41788) |