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Concinnithyris obesa
Taxonomy
Terebratula obesa was named by Sowerby (1823). Its type specimen is B49832, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, which is in a Cenomanian marine chalk in the Lower Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Concinnithyris.
It was recombined as Concinnithyris obesa by Owen (1988).
It was recombined as Concinnithyris obesa by Owen (1988).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1823 | Terebratula obesa Sowerby p. 54 figs. Pl. 438, Fig. 1 |
| 1988 | Concinnithyris obesa Owen p. 128 figs. 23; Pl. 12, Fig. 7-12; Pl. 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.
†Concinnithyris obesa Sowerby 1823
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 34.9 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Turonian or 113.00000 to 89.30000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Albian | Madagascar (Mahajanga) | Terebratula obesa (86497) | |
| Albian | Madagascar | Terebratula obesa (98264 98268) | |
| Cenomanian | United Kingdom | Terebratula obesa (type locality: 154006) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | United Kingdom (England) | Terebratula obesa (49496) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | United Kingdom (England) | Concinnithyris obesa (82857) | |
| Early/Lower Turonian | France | Concinnithyris obesa (59620) |