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Maorirhynchia nelsonensis
Taxonomy
Maorirhynchia nelsonensis was named by MacFarlan (1992). Its type specimen is OU 16078, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is ERF N8b, Pig Valley (N28/f7743), which is in an Anisian marine horizon in New Zealand.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1992 | Maorirhynchia nelsonensis MacFarlan p. 80 figs. Pl 4, figs 12-18; text-fig 8.1i-k |
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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.
†Maorirhynchia nelsonensis MacFarlan 1992
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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 | 6.11 | 2.70 | 19.9 | 5.35 | 7.93 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||