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Australosutura gardneri
Taxonomy
Cordania gardneri was named by Mitchell (1922). Its type specimen is AMF26974, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Australosutura gardneri by Campbell and Goldring (1960), Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
It was recombined as Australosutura gardneri by Campbell and Goldring (1960), Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1922 | Cordania gardneri Mitchell p. 535–540 figs. pl. 54 |
| 1924 | Cordania gardneri Mitchell p. 53 figs. pl.10, fig. 15 |
| 1960 | Australosutura gardneri Campbell and Goldring pp. 229-230 figs. pl. 40 |
| 2015 | Australosutura gardneri Vanderlaan and Ebach p. 17 |
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†Australosutura gardneri Mitchell 1922
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. A. Vanderlaan and M. C. Ebach 2015 | Cephalon and glabella strongly inflated; glabella subcylindrical with prominent subtriangular basal lobes and deeply incised S1 furrows; S2 present; preglabellar field short and high; border furrow very broad, concave and pitted; short convex border; strongly convex eyes; long genal spines; facial suture curves strongly away from the eye; surface of librigena, fixigena, preglabellar field, glabella and occipital ring with numerous tubercles. Nine thoracic segments. Pygidium with 15 axial rings, eight or more pleural ribs; rings strongly arched and tuberculate, with a prominent median row of tubercles; ribs also tuberculate. |
Measurements
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||
Age range: Namurian or 330.30000 to 318.70000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Visean - Namurian | Australia (New South Wales) | Australosutura gardneri (58051) | |
| Namurian - Westphalian | Australia (New South Wales) | Australosutura gardneri (58063) |