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Shumardia matchensis
Taxonomy
Shumardia matchensis was named by Legg (1976). Its type specimen is UWA 71433, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Core 15, Matches Springs No. 1, Canning Basin, which is in a Darriwilian carbonate shale/limestone in the Goldwyer Formation of Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1976 | Shumardia matchensis Legg p. 3 figs. Pl. 1, fig. 28 |
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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.
†Shumardia matchensis Legg 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Darriwilian or 469.40000 to 458.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Darriwilian | Australia (Western Australia) | Shumardia matchensis (type locality: 236050) |