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Polypora virga
Taxonomy
Polypora virga was named by Laseron (1918). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Branxton west railway cutting, which is in a Roadian offshore shale in the Branxton Formation of Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Polypora virga Laseron p. 192 figs. Pl 7; pl 8, fig 2 |
| 1941 | Polypora virga Crockford p. 410 figs. Pl 19, fig 3 |
| 1946 | Polypora virga Crockford p. 133 |
| 1964 | Polypora virga Maxwell p. 40 figs. Pl 13, fig 6 |
| 1968 | Polypora virga Wass p. 51 figs. Pl 13, fig 2 |
| 2003 | Polypora virga Reid p. 71 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.
†Polypora virga Laseron 1918
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Smith et al. 2006, Kiessling 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Wordian or 290.10000 to 264.28000 Ma
Collections (19 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Tasmania) | Polypora virga (82133 116532 116533 116534 116582) | |
| Artinskian | Australia (Queensland) | Polypora virga (85878 103948) | |
| Kungurian | Australia (Queensland) | Polypora virga (106888) | |
| Kungurian | Australia (Tasmania) | Polypora virga (87340 116513 116514) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Polypora virga (121969) | |
| Roadian | Australia (Tasmania) | Polypora virga (116519) | |
| Roadian | Australia (New South Wales) | Polypora virga (37634 type locality: 90389 90393 95359 106676) | |
| Wordian | Australia (Tasmania) | Polypora virga (116521) |