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Catella fossa
Taxonomy
Catella fossa was named by Melville (1956). It is not extant. Its type specimen is GSM Bj 1557, a valve. Its type locality is Stowell Park borehole (H. serpentinum Zone, H. exaratum Subzone, 706-720ft), which is in a Toarcian marine shale in the Upper Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Catella fossa Melville |
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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.
†Catella fossa Melville 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Toarcian or 184.20000 to 182.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Toarcian | United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) | Parallelodon fossa (type locality: 204117) |