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Guiratingia mendesi
Taxonomy
Guiratingia mendesi was named by Petri and Fulfaro (1966). Its type specimen is DGP-7/1019, a shell, and it is a cast. Its type locality is Rio Mosquito, south of Guiratinga, which is in an Artinskian lacustrine limestone in the Palermo Formation of Brazil. It is the type species of Guiratingia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1966 | Guiratingia mendesi Petri and Fulfaro |
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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.
†Guiratingia mendesi Petri and Fulfaro 1966
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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 | 4.64 | - | - | - | - | |
| valve height | 2 | 4.99 | 4.70 | 5.30 | 5.00 | 0.424 |
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Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artinskian | Brazil | Guiratingia mendesi (type locality: 132224) |