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Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis

Polychaeta - Rhynchonellidae

Taxonomy
Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis was named by MacFarlan (1992). Its type specimen is NZGS BR 2290, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GS 9241, Waingaro Valley (R14/f6676), which is in a Toarcian/Bathonian marine horizon in the Ohautira Conglomerate Formation of New Zealand.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis MacFarlan p. 238 figs. Pl 28, figs 13-25; text-fig 20.1f,g

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumAnnelidaLamarck 1809
RankNameAuthor
classPolychaetaGrube 1850
superfamilyRhynchonelloidead'Orbigny 1847
familyRhynchonellidaeGray 1848
subfamilyPiarorhynchiinaeShi and Grant 1993
genusTainuirhynchia
specieswaingaroensis

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.

†Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis MacFarlan 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height27.495.5010.27.853.32

Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Diet: detritivorec
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-21 12:32:22
Modified: 2010-02-16 04:15:12
Source: c = class
Reference: Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: base of the Bajocian to the top of the Temaikan or 170.90000 to 164.30000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Toarcian - Bathonian184.2 - 165.3New Zealand Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis (type locality: 133922)
Temaikan176.0 - 164.3New Zealand Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis (134402 134404 134405)
Bajocian170.9 - 168.2New Zealand Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis (134291)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3New Zealand Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis (134288 134403)
Callovian165.3 - 161.5New Zealand Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis (133850 133921 133924 134361)
Callovian - Oxfordian165.3 - 154.8New Zealand Tainuirhynchia waingaroensis (134010)