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Areomartus ovatus
Taxonomy
Areomartus ovatus was named by Petrunkevitch (1913). Its type specimen is USNM 6068, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Cotton Hill, Fayette County, which is in a Westphalian B terrestrial siliciclastic in the Kanawha Formation of West Virginia. It is the type species of Areomartus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1913 | Areomartus ovatus Petrunkevitch p. 102 figs. Pl 10, fig 58; text-fig 59 |
| 1949 | Areomartus ovatus Petrunkevitch p. 249 fig. 123 |
| 1953 | Areomartus ovatus Petrunkevitch p. 86 |
| 2010 | Areomartus ovatus Dunlop p. 46 figs. 1-3 |
| 2013 | Areomartus ovatus Dunlop et al. p. 124 |
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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.
†Areomartus ovatus Petrunkevitch 1913
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Westphalian B or 316.90000 to 314.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian B | USA (West Virginia) | Areomartus ovatus (type locality: 146859) |