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Fusispirifer wandageensis

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae

Taxonomy
Fusispirifer wandageensis was named by Archbold and Thomas (1987). Its type specimen is CPC 24484, a shell (Conjoined shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BMR ML58, Minilya River, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Wandagee Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Fusispirifer wandageensis Archbold and Thomas p. 188 figs. 7A-E,8A-C,9A-G,10A-E
2004Fusispirifer wandageensis Waterhouse

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classRhynchonellataWilliams et al. 1996
orderSpiriferida
suborderSpiriferidina
superfamilySpiriferoidea()
familyTrigonotretidae
subfamilyNeospiriferinae
genusFusispirifer
specieswandageensis

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.

Fusispirifer wandageensis Archbold and Thomas 1987
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height329.528.830.529.30.904

Composition: low Mg calcitep
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yesp
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Created: 2004-02-28 14:12:52
Modified: 2004-02-28 16:12:52
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013

Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 272.30000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Australia (Western Australia) Fusispirifer wandageensis (84852)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3Australia (Western Australia) Fusispirifer wandageensis (84353 84498 85208 type locality: 85228 101213 101257 101258) Spirifer byroensis (106707)