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Punctospirifer
Taxonomy
Punctospirifer was named by North (1920) [Sepkoski's age data: C Tour-l P Guad-u Sepkoski's reference number: 47,955]. Its type is Pustulospiriferina etheridgei. It is the type genus of Punctospiriferidae.
It was assigned to Spiriferinidae by Hoare (1961); to Spiriferida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Punctospiriferidae by Williams et al. (2006).
It was assigned to Spiriferinidae by Hoare (1961); to Spiriferida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Punctospiriferidae by Williams et al. (2006).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1920 | Punctospirifer North |
| 1961 | Punctospirifer Hoare p. 84 |
| 2002 | Punctospirifer Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Punctospirifer Williams et al. p. 1911 |
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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.
G. †Punctospirifer North 1920
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†Punctospirifer adstrictus Chronic 1949
†Punctospirifer afghanus Termier et al. 1974
†Punctospirifer ambiguus Maxwell 1964
†Punctospirifer coronae Schellwien 1892
†Punctospirifer fastigata Schellwien 1900
†Punctospirifer gigas Navarro-Santillan et al. 2002
†Punctospirifer globosa Easton et al. 1958
†Punctospirifer guangyuanensis Lu 1978
†Punctospirifer inflatus Chronic 1949
†Punctospirifer kentuckensis Shumard 1855
†Punctospirifer patulus Chronic 1949
†Punctospirifer pseudocristatus Stepanov 1934
†Punctospirifer solidirostris White 1860
†Punctospirifer sulcifer Easton et al. 1958
†Punctospirifer transversus McChesney 1860
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 59 | 4.52 | 2.00 | 18.1 | 4.60 | 2.50 |
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| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Famennian to the top of the Changhsingian or 372.20000 to 252.17000 Ma
Collections (487 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleozoic - Triassic | Chile (Ovalle) | P. sp. (222433) | |
| Early/Lower Famennian | China | P. sp. (162317) | |
| Famennian | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | P. plicatosulcatus (38294 38295 38296 38298 38299 38300 38302 38304 38323 38325 38327 38329) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | USA (Ohio) | P. sp. (3442 3456 3457) | |
| Late/Upper Famennian | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | P. plicatosulcatus (38306) | |
| Kinderhookian | Canada (Alberta) | P. solidirostris (8141) | |
| Kinderhookian | USA (Iowa) | P. solidirostris (62482) | |
| Kinderhookian | Canada (Northwest Territories) | P. solidirostris (62431) | |
| Kinderhookian | Canada (Yukon) | P. sp. (546 548) | |
| Kinderhookian | USA (Texas) | P. sp. (62494 62497) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Wordian - Capitanian | China (Heilongjiang) | P. sp. (61879 61881 61882) | |
| Wordian - Capitanian | China (Nei Mongol) | P. pseudocristatus (111155) | |
| Capitanian | USA (Texas) | P. billingsii (151077 151110) | |
| Wuchiapingian | China (Chongqing) | P. octoplicata (121032) | |
| Wuchiapingian | China (Xizang) | Spiriferina fastigata (230327) | |
| Wuchiapingian | China (Hunan) | P. sp. (96863) | |
| Lopingian | India | Spiriferina fastigata (230328) | |
| Changhsingian | Nepal | P. sp. (99791) | |
| Changhsingian | China (Guangxi) | P. octoplicatus (149207) | |
| Changhsingian | China (Sichuan) | P. guangyuanensis (103450) | |