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Avonothyris plicatina
Taxonomy
Avonothyris plicatina was named by Buckman (1917). Its type specimen is BGS 51326 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bradford-on-Avon (Marshall Coll.), which is in a Bathonian carbonate limestone/claystone in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Avonothyris.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1917 | Avonothyris plicatina Buckman p. 102 figs. Pl 21, figs 9a-c |
| 1983 | Avonothyris plicatina Cooper p. 58 figs. Pl 48, figs 1-10 |
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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.
†Avonothyris plicatina Buckman 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 18.7 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Bathonian or 168.20000 to 165.30000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Bathonian | United Kingdom (Wiltshire) | Avonothyris plicatina (135486 type locality: 171320) |