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Scala virginiana
Taxonomy
Scala virginiana was named by Clark (1895). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aquia Creek, which is in a Paleocene marine horizon in the Aquia Formation of Virginia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. bryozoophila, S. communis, S. crenata, S. franciscae, S. greenlandicum, S. odilae, S. spinosa, S. spirata, S. terebralis, S. pseudogallica, S. subvaricosa, S. subvaricosa, S. bourgeois, S. peyroti, S. subspinosa, S. exspectata, S. falunica, S. kunstleri, S. parilis, S. spinosa, S. subulata, S. crebricostellata, S. crispa, S. plesiomorpha, S. tenuilamella, S. tenuicosta, S. tenuicosta, S. dollfusi, S. mirabilis, S. foliacea, S. frondiculoides
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1895 | Scala virginiana Clark p. 4 |
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†Scala virginiana Clark 1895
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Beu et al. 1990, Abbott and Dance 1986, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Paleocene or 59.24000 to 56.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (Virginia) | Scala virginiana (type locality: 84048) |