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Argyrotheca quadrata
Taxonomy
Argyrotheca quadrata was named by Cooper (1988). Its type specimen is USNM 550881b, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lanier Pit (USNM collection), which is in a Bartonian marine wackestone in the Castle Hayne Formation of North Carolina.
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Argyrotheca quadrata Cooper pp. 19-20 figs. Pl. 2, Fig. 1-8; Pl. 4, Fig. 40-44; Pl. 5, Fig. 12-25; Pl. 9, Fig. 41-44 |
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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.
†Argyrotheca quadrata Cooper 1988
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†Argyrotheca quadrata transversa Cooper 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 1.26 | 1.00 | 1.60 | 1.30 | 0.424 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||