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Virgiscalpellum wrighti
Taxonomy
Virgiscalpellum wrighti was named by Withers (1946). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Crackers, Atherfield (Wright collection), which is in an Aptian marine siliciclastic in the Atherfield Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1946 | Virgiscalpellum wrighti Withers p. 555 figs. Pl 2, figs 3-6 |
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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.
†Virgiscalpellum wrighti Withers 1946
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Early/Lower Aptian or 121.40000 to 119.57000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Aptian | United Kingdom (England) | Virgiscalpellum wrighti (type locality: 171903) | |
| Aptian | United Kingdom (England) | Virgiscalpellum wrighti (1747) |