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Bothrothyris curiosa
Taxonomy
Bothrothyris curiosa was named by Cooper (1983). Its type specimen is USNM 551007, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gebel Maghara, which is in a Callovian marine horizon in Egypt. It is the type species of Bothrothyris.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Bothrothyris curiosa Cooper p. 62 figs. Pl 37, figs 25-27 |
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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.
†Bothrothyris curiosa Cooper 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 25.0 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||