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Walkerithyris mendax
Taxonomy
Walkerithyris mendax was named by Cox and Middlemiss (1978). Its type specimen is BM BB76234, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CBPsl, Chamberlain Barn [Shenley Limestone, Lower Greensand], which is in an Albian marine carbonate in the Munday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Walkerithyris.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Walkerithyris mendax Cox and Middlemiss p. 425 figs. Pl. 40, Fig. 7-8; Txt. Fig. 6 |
| 1983 | Walkerithyris mendax Cooper p. 220 |
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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.
†Walkerithyris mendax Cox and Middlemiss 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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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: Early/Lower Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Albian | United Kingdom (England) | Walkerithyris mendax (type locality: 1864) |