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Cancellothyris platys
Taxonomy
Cancellothyris platys was named by Brunton and Hiller (1990). Its type specimen is BD6742, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Avontuur A (50m Unit), which is in a Messinian shoreface sandstone in the Alexander Bay Formation of South Africa.
Subspecies
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Cancellothyris platys Brunton and Hiller p. 335 figs. Pl. 4, Fig. 1-13, Txt. fig. 10a-g |
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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.
†Cancellothyris platys Brunton and Hiller 1990
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†Cancellothyris platys petalos Brunton and Hiller 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 6 | 21.4 | 18.6 | 28.6 | 20.0 | 3.90 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||