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Sunrisites chilcotinensis
Taxonomy
Sunrisites chilcotinensis was named by Longridge et al. (2008). Its type specimen is GSC 127406, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Section B 01, Castle Pass, which is in an Angulata marine sandstone in the Last Creek Formation of Canada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2008 | Sunrisites chilcotinensis Longridge et al. p. 136 figs. 6.5, 6.6, 6.10-6.12, 7.5, 7.6, 7.11, 8.8-8.10 |
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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.
†Sunrisites chilcotinensis Longridge et al. 2008
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 8 | 10.7 | 6.20 | 29.4 | 9.15 | 7.71 | |
| shell diameter | 8 | 36.4 | 21.5 | 92.0 | 29.8 | 23.7 | |
| shell inflation | 8 | 17.6 | 10.2 | 39.5 | 14.7 | 10.1 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Angulata or 201.40000 to 199.50000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Angulata | Canada (British Columbia) | Sunrisites chilcotinensis (157360 157361 157363 157365 157370 157375 type locality: 157376 157419) | |
| Late/Upper Hettangian | Canada (British Columbia) | Sunrisites chilcotinensis (53201 53363) |