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Taxonomy
Atopasaphus petasatus was named by Shergold (1971). Its type specimen is CPC 9714, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gola Beds B750, which is in a Franconian/Trempealeauan marine lime mudstone in Australia. It is the type species of Atopasaphus.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Atopasaphus petasatus Shergold p. 81 figs. Pl. 9, fig. 5 |
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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.
†Atopasaphus petasatus Shergold 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Franconian to the top of the Trempealeauan or 497.00000 to 485.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Franconian - Trempealeauan | Australia (Queensland) | Atopasaphus petasatus (type locality: 198279) |