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Etheripecten plicatus
Taxonomy
Etheripecten plicatus was named by Waterhouse (1983). Its type specimen is UQ F63240 and is a mold. Its type locality is UQ L4640, Bowen River, Exmoor Homestead, which is in a Wordian/Capitanian marine sandstone in the Blenheim Formation of Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Etheripecten plicatus Waterhouse p. 248 figs. Pl 4, figs 1-4,6,11,14 |
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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.
†Etheripecten plicatus Waterhouse 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 5 | 64.4 | 47.5 | 78.0 | 66.4 | 11.1 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Capitanian or 259.90000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wordian - Capitanian | Australia (Queensland) | Etheripecten plicatus (type locality: 104741) | |
| Wuchiapingian | Australia (Queensland) | Etheripecten plicatus (104740 104762) |