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Rhiniopora spooneri
Taxonomy
Rhiniopora spooneri was named by Butler and Cheetham (1958). Its type specimen is L.S.U. Geology Museum, 1390 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rayburns dome , which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in Louisiana.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1958 | Rhiniopora spooneri Butler and Cheetham p. 1154 figs. 1-3 |
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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.
†Rhiniopora spooneri Butler and Cheetham 1958
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. A. Butler and A. Cheetham 1958 | Rhiniopora having membraniporiform zoaria, rhomboidal zooecia, semicircular to cribriline orifices (Text-fig. 3), and moderately numerous, monomorphic, distally directed avicularia. Autozooecial orifices each with five distal spines. Differs from R. asperula (Marsson), its closest relative, in size of autozooecia, number of costulae, and orientation of avicuaria. |
Measurements
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| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Smith et al. 2006 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Louisiana) | Rhiniopora spooneri (type locality: 214247) |