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Bairdia megedensis
Taxonomy
Bairdia megedensis was named by Honigstein and Crasquin (2011). Its type specimen is GSI Triassic/Meged-2/479, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Meged-2 borehole, sample 5144-47 m, which is in a Spathian/Anisian marine shale in the Zafir Formation of Israel.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. africana, B. altifrons, B. anomala, B. antamputata, B. auricula, B. austriaca, B. billjohnsoni, B. birinae, B. bradfieldi, B. cassiana, B. ciscoensis, B. colonensis, B. condylus, B. confragosaeformis, B. crebra, B. croneisi, B. croskeina, B. cultrijugati, B. dissortis, B. dolicha, B. egorovi, B. eleziana, B. eleziana, B. exoura, B. fabaeformis, B. fusca, B. gibbosa, B. gosportensis, B. haworthi, B. hilda, B. hisingeriformis, B. hispida, B. hiwannensis, B. hondurasensis, B. isoscelata, B. kaschewarovae, B. kawakensis, B. kelleri, B. kinderhookensis, B. knuepferi, B. legumen, B. longisetosa, B. manifesta, B. meishanensis, B. moorei, B. mucronata, B. multihilosa, B. nitida, B. oklahomensis, B. opisthorhadina, B. paraproba, B. peneovoidea, B. philippovae, B. pinnula, B. proxischimensis, B. psiegorkiensis, B. rectifrontis, B. singularis, B. soldadensis, B. subcitriformis, B. subeleziana, B. subvexa, B. summa, B. turgida, B. urodeliformis, B. virga, B. feliumgibba, B. pompillioides, B. gliberti
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2011 | Bairdia megedensis Honigstein and Crasquin p. 21 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2 |
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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.
†Bairdia megedensis Honigstein and Crasquin 2011
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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carapace height | 2 | 0.464 | 0.430 | 0.500 | 0.465 | 0.049 |
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References: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002 |