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Linguaphillipsia elongata
Taxonomy
Phillipsia elongata was named by Mitchell (1918). Its type specimen is NGSF1500a/b, a cephalon/head (external/internal moulds of dorsal shield), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Binge Berry, Rouchel Brook, which is in a Visean marine siltstone/mudstone in the Woolooma Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Linguaphillipsia elongata by Hahn and Hahn (1972), Engel and Morris (1975) and Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
It was recombined as Linguaphillipsia elongata by Hahn and Hahn (1972), Engel and Morris (1975) and Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Phillipsia elongata Mitchell pp. 456 458 figs. pl. 47, figs. 3–5, pl. 48, fig. 14, pl. 50, figs. 4–7 |
| 1972 | Linguaphillipsia elongata Hahn and Hahn pp. 371 - 372 |
| 1975 | Linguaphillipsia elongata Engel and Morris pp. 166 - 170 figs. pl. 1, figs. 9–11, pl. 2, figs. 12–16, text-fig. 13 |
| 2015 | Linguaphillipsia elongata Vanderlaan and Ebach pp. 33 - 35 fig. 6.1 |
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†Linguaphillipsia elongata Mitchell 1918
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. A. Vanderlaan and M. C. Ebach 2015 | Glabella constricted, weakly tapering anteriorly, ending prior to the anterior margin; anterior border narrow, rolled; fixigenae broad, β – β sub–equal to δ – δ; palpebral lobes broad, with a straight ε – ζ section; eyes large, mounted on eye platform delineated by an elevated crescentic ridge. Nine thoracic segments. Pygidium with 18 – 20 axial rings, 13 – 15 pleural ribs; border slightly convex, without distinct furrow, separated by changed of slope from pleura; dorsal surface granulose. |
Measurements
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||