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Taxonomy
Obolus virginiensis was named by Cooper (1956) [= Palaeoglossa belli Willard (not Billings), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll., vol. 68, No. 6, p. 255, 1928.]. Its type specimen is USNM 109334, a valve (pedicle valve), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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| 1956 | Obolus virginiensis Cooper pp. 191 - 192 figs. Plate 7, E, figures 20-22 |
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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.
†Obolus virginiensis Cooper 1956
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Hendy et al. 2009, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Collections
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