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Bihendulirhynchia afra
Taxonomy
Bihendulirhynchia afra was named by Muir-Wood (1935). Its type specimen is BMNH B.85633, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Daghani, bed 211, which is in a Kimmeridgian carbonate limestone in the Wanderer Limestone Formation of Somalia. It is the type species of Bihendulirhynchia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1935 | Bihendulirhynchia afra Muir-Wood p. 105 figs. Pl 10, fig 1; text-figs 9,10 |
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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.
†Bihendulirhynchia afra Muir-Wood 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 6.30 |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian or 155.70000 to 150.80000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | Somalia | Bihendulirhynchia afra (93004 type locality: 93005) |