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Dindymene ovalis
Taxonomy
Dindymene ovalis was named by Weir (1959) [= 1862 Dindymene haidingeri Baily. p. 10.
= 1885 Dindymene haidingeri Baily. p. 29.
= 1939 Dindymene Stubblefield, p. 61.
= 1942 Dindymene haidingeri Harper, p. 276.
= 1948 Dindymene Harper, p. 60.]. Its type specimen is B.M. In. 53388, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stream on south-eastern boundary of Ballyvorgal South, Slieve Bemagh Mountains, which is in a Katian marine mudstone in Ireland.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1959 | Dindymene ovalis Weir pp. 380 - 381 figs. Plale 62, fig. 9-10 |
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†Dindymene ovalis Weir 1959
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. A. Weir 1959 | Dindymene with cephalon bearing sparse small tubercles, axial furrows slightly convex outwards, genal angles smoothly rounded and cheek lobes sub-semicircular in outline. |
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||