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Orbirhynchia dispansa
Taxonomy
Orbirhynchia dispansa was named by Pettitt (1954). Its type specimen is B.M. [B.80113] and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Borstal Manor, which is in a Turonian carbonate chalk in the Upper Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Orbirhynchia dispansa Pettitt p. 48 figs. Pl. 3, Fig. 15a-c, 17a-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 dispansa Pettitt 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| height | 2 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 11.0 | 10.8 | 0.354 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Turonian or 93.90000 to 89.80000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Turonian | United Kingdom (England) | Orbirhynchia dispansa (159132 159332 159652 159653 type locality: 159654 159656 159659 159660) |