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Cyphaspis akkae
Taxonomy
Otarion (Otarion) akkae was named by Alberti (1969). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lower Tafilalt Limestone, Tafilalt Area, SE Morocco, which is in a Pragian marine limestone in the Tafilalt Limestone Formation of Morocco.
It was recombined as Cyphaspis akkae by Bault et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Cyphaspis akkae by Bault et al. (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Otarion (Otarion) akkae Alberti |
| 2021 | Cyphaspis akkae Bault et al. pp. Appendix 7 |
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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.
†Cyphaspis akkae Alberti 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Pragian to the top of the Late/Upper Emsian or 413.02000 to 393.47000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pragian | Morocco | Otarion akkae (type locality: 27068) | |
| Early/Lower Emsian - Late/Upper Emsian | Morocco | Cyphaspis akkae (208233) |