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Taxonomy
Ptychopyge canningensis was named by Legg (1976). Its type specimen is UWA 71410, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Core 14, McLarty 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 | Ptychopyge canningensis Legg p. 8 figs. Pl. 2, fig. 2 |
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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.
†Ptychopyge canningensis Legg 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: Darriwilian or 467.30000 to 458.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Darriwilian | Australia (Western Australia) | Ptychopyge canningensis (type locality: 236052) |