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Amphipella arcaria
Taxonomy
Amphipella arcaria was named by Cooper and Grant (1969). Its type specimen is USNM 148098a, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM708u, Split Tank, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Amphipella.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Amphipella arcaria Cooper and Grant p. 11 figs. Pl 1, figs 13-21 |
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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.
†Amphipella arcaria Cooper and Grant 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 8 | 1.44 | 0.900 | 2.30 | 1.40 | 0.628 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||