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Ditomopyge bjornensis
Taxonomy
Ditomopyge bjornensis was named by Ormiston (1973). Its type specimen is GSC 27828, an exoskeleton (nearly complete specimen with right side eroded), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 57719, Bjorne Peninsula, Ellesmere Island (TC-217), which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Great Bear Cape Formation of Canada.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Ditomopyge bjornensis Ormiston p. 131 figs. Pl 16, figs 1-3,5,7 |
| 1985 | Ditomopyge bjornensis Nelson and Nelson figs. Pl 1, fig 25 |
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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.
†Ditomopyge bjornensis Ormiston 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Wordian or 290.10000 to 264.28000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Canada (Nunavut) | Ditomopyge bjornensis (type locality: 111866) | |
| Wordian | Canada (British Columbia) | Ditomopyge bjornensis (95218) |