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Palaeophillipsia squamata
Taxonomy
Phillipsia squamata was named by Engel and Morris (1983). Its type specimen is AMF 80267, a cephalon/head (external mould of cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is NU L890. Nugra Road, south of Girvan, which is in a Tournaisian/Visean marine mudstone/siltstone in the Wootton Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Palaeophillipsia squamata by Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
It was recombined as Palaeophillipsia squamata by Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Phillipsia squamata Engel and Morris pp. 228 - 231 figs. 1A, 3, 4A–C |
| 2015 | Palaeophillipsia squamata Vanderlaan and Ebach p. 40 |
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†Palaeophillipsia squamata Engel and Morris 1983
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. A. Vanderlaan and M. C. Ebach 2015 | Palaeophillipsia? squamata |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||
Age range: Ivorian or 353.80000 to 346.70000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tournaisian - Visean | Australia (New South Wales) | Phillipsia squamata (217058) | |
| Ivorian | Australia (New South Wales) | Palaeophillipsia squamata (217057) |