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Vosmiverstum wenlockum
Taxonomy
Vosmiverstum wenlockum was named by Boucot et al. (1988). Its type specimen is USNM 409906 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM loc. 12878, Red Amphitheatre, Funeral Mountains, which is in a Wenlock deep subtidal shelf dolomite in the Hidden Valley Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Vosmiverstum wenlockum Boucot et al. pp. 112 - 113 figs. Pl. 4, figs. 1-16 |
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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.
†Vosmiverstum wenlockum Boucot et al. 1988
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. J. Boucot et al. 1988 | Valves intermediate size, with relatively coarse, angular costae. Fold and sulcus absent. Spondylium about 112 to 2/3 of valve length and supported by a short median septum. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||