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Bathyurus (Raymondites) clochensis
Taxonomy
Bathyurus (Raymondites) clochensis was named by Swisher et al. (2015). Its type specimen is ROM 61466, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is road cut on HW 68, Cloche Island, approximately 9 km south of Birch Island, which is in a Turinian carbonate mudstone/wackestone in the Cloche Island Formation of Canada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2015 | Bathyurus (Raymondites) clochensis Swisher et al. p. 131 fig. 14.1–14.9 |
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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.
†Bathyurus (Raymondites) clochensis Swisher et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. E. Swisher et al. 2015 | Frontal area subequally divided into gently convex anterior border and slightly longer preglabellar field; anterior border furrow poorly defined. Palpebral area of fixgena with sculpture of fine tubercles, best defined on smaller specimen. Occipital spine present. |
Measurements
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References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997, Harrington et al. 1959, Aberhan et al. 2004 |