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Portunites subovata
Discussion
originally listed under the genus Portunites in this reference but this was later changed to the genus Stintonius
Taxonomy
Portunites subovata was named by Quayle and Collins (1981). Its type specimen is BMNH In.61715, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Horizon A2, Christchurch Bay, which is in a Bartonian coastal claystone in the Barton Clay Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Stintonius.
It was recombined as Stintonius subovata by Collins (2002), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer and Feldmann (2019).
It was recombined as Stintonius subovata by Collins (2002), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer and Feldmann (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1981 | Portunites subovata Quayle and Collins p. 749 figs. Pl 105, fig 2 |
| 2002 | Stintonius subovata Collins p. 86 |
| 2010 | Stintonius subovata Schweitzer et al. p. 104 |
| 2019 | Stintonius subovata Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 8 fig. 6.5 |
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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.
†Portunites subovata Quayle and Collins 1981
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Fearon and Clapham 2023, Turnsek 1997, Aberhan 1992 | |||||