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Oepikina bellula
Taxonomy
Opikina bellula was named by Cooper (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 117799a and is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Oepikina bellula by Mitchell and Sweet (1989).
It was recombined as Oepikina bellula by Mitchell and Sweet (1989).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Opikina bellula Cooper pp. 904 - 905 figs. Plate 242, D, figures 14-25 |
| 1989 | Oepikina bellula Mitchell and Sweet |
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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.
†Oepikina bellula Cooper 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Edenian to the top of the Maysvillian or 451.00000 to 449.60000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blackriveran | USA (Pennsylvania) | Opikina bellula (162391) | |
| Edenian - Maysvillian | Canada (Northwest Territories) | Oepikina bellula (192143) |