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Paraparchites orbiculatus
Taxonomy
Paraparchites orbiculatus was named by Chen (1958). Its type specimen is NIGP 9067 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AV-81, Guanshan Section, Longtan, Nanjing City, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Qixia Formation of China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1958 | Paraparchites orbiculatus Chen p. 218 figs. Pl 8, figs 1,2,10 |
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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.
†Paraparchites orbiculatus Chen 1958
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| carapace height | 1 | 1.21 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Alvarez et al. 2008 | |||||