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Spiriferalaria thescelus
Taxonomy
Neospirifer thescelus was named by Cooper and Grant (1976). Its type specimen is USNM 152916y, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Spiriferalaria.
It was synonymized subjectively with Neospirifer venezuelensis by Hoover (1981); it was recombined as Spiriferalaria thescelus by Waterhouse (2002).
It was synonymized subjectively with Neospirifer venezuelensis by Hoover (1981); it was recombined as Spiriferalaria thescelus by Waterhouse (2002).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1976 | Neospirifer thescelus Cooper and Grant p. 2189 figs. Pl 609, figs 30-48; pl 610, figs 1-38; pl 611, figs 1-12; pl 612, figs 1-12 |
| 2002 | Spiriferalaria thescelus Waterhouse |
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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.
†Spiriferalaria thescelus Cooper and Grant 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 30 | 8.23 | 0.500 | 39.0 | 11.9 | 12.5 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||