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Murihikurhynchia carolinae
Taxonomy
Murihikurhynchia carolinae was named by MacFarlan (1992). Its type specimen is OU 16638, a shell, and it is a mold. Its type locality is JDC 743, Caroline (E44/f9514), which is in an Oretian marine horizon in New Zealand.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1992 | Murihikurhynchia carolinae MacFarlan p. 138 figs. Pl 14, figs 18-25; text-fig 10.1g,h |
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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.
†Murihikurhynchia carolinae MacFarlan 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 5 | 4.34 | 2.90 | 6.60 | 4.00 | 1.52 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Oretian or 227.50000 to 221.00000 Ma
Collections (15 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Oretian | New Zealand | Murihikurhynchia carolinae (134171 134263 134267 134458 134495 134643 134770 134835 134836 134876 134987 type locality: 134988 135237 135294) | |
| Oretian | New Caledonia | Murihikurhynchia carolinae (133803) |