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Orbirhynchia compta
Taxonomy
Orbirhynchia compta was named by Pettitt (1954). Its type specimen is B.M. [BB.12398] and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Branscombe or Berry Cliffs, which is in a Turonian carbonate chalk in the Middle Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Orbirhynchia compta Pettitt p. 44 figs. Pl. 3, Fig. 9a-c |
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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.
†Orbirhynchia compta Pettitt 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| height | 1 | 8.60 |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Turonian or 93.90000 to 89.80000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Cretaceous | United Kingdom (England) | Orbirhynchia compta (38495) | |
| Turonian | United Kingdom (England) | Orbirhynchia compta (159635 type locality: 159638 159639) |