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Aulacothyris megacompressa
Taxonomy
Aulacothyris megacompressa was named by Xu (1978). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dedengsi, Jomda County, which is in an Alaunian carbonate limestone in the Bolila Formation of China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Aulacothyris megacompressa Xu p. 310 figs. Pl 103, figs 6,7 |
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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.
†Aulacothyris megacompressa Xu 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 10.9 | 9.50 | 12.6 | 11.1 | 2.19 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||