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Taxonomy
Pteria carixensis was named by Cox (1928). Its type specimen is BMNH L.48635, a valve (left valve), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bed 111, Lower Pale Band, Charmouth, which is in a Jamesoni offshore marl in the Belemnite Marls Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1928 | Pteria carixensis Cox p. 241 figs. Pl 18, fig 6 |
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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.
†Pteria carixensis Cox 1928
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| valve height | 1 | 12.0 |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Voigt 1973 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Sinemurian to the top of the Jamesoni or 196.50000 to 183.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Sinemurian | United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) | Pteria carixensis (204130) | |
| Jamesoni | United Kingdom (Dorset) | Pteria carixensis (type locality: 159808) |