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Palmettaspis consorta
Taxonomy
Palmettaspis consorta was named by Fritz (1995). Its type specimen is USNM 476024, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UNSM "Green" Locality 1f, which is in a Montezuman marine siltstone in the Campito Formation of Nevada. It is the type species of Palmettaspis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Palmettaspis consorta Fritz p. 720 figs. figs. 5.4, 8.1–8.6, 10.1, 10.2 |
| 1999 | Palmettaspis consorta Lieberman p. 84 fig. 15.2 |
| 2006 | Palmettaspis consorta Hollingsworth p. 323 |
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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.
†Palmettaspis consorta Fritz 1995
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. H. Fritz 1995 | Palmettaspis species with slightly expanded an terior glabellar lobe, ocular lobes terminating opposite anterior third of posterior glabellar lobes (LI), strongly advanced genal spines, and short, thorn-like pleural spines that narrow rapidly from base. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Montezuman or 520.00000 to 515.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Montezuman | USA (Nevada) | Palmettaspis consorta (10555 type locality: 69466 140498 140559) |