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Ambikella furca
Taxonomy
Ambikella furca was named by Waterhouse (1967). Its type specimen is NZGS BR1194 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GS9140, Roding River (N28/f7700), which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Stephens Formation of New Zealand.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1967 | Ambikella furca Waterhouse p. 96 figs. 5F,34-37,39 |
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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.
†Ambikella furca Waterhouse 1967
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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J. B. Waterhouse 1967 | Transverse or elongate inflated Ambikella, sulcus narrow and groove-like posteriorly, wide anteriorly, with two prominent subplicae and a median groove. Dorsal fold with shallow or deep sulcus. Plicae low or absent, surface grooves short, close-set. Dental plates high, adminicula long, moderately close-set. Dorsal adminicula very long. |