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Composita minuscula
Taxonomy
Composita minuscula was named by Chronic (1949). Its type specimen is AMNH 26927/1:3, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMNH286, Bed 8, Cerro Caya Caya Section 18, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in Peru.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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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.
†Composita minuscula Chronic 1949
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 10 | 5.50 | 3.60 | 8.20 | 5.60 | 1.43 |
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Artinskian or 293.52000 to 279.30000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Sakmarian | Bolivia | Composita minuscula (47006) | |
| Artinskian | Peru (Amazonas) | Composita minuscula (type locality: 41341) |