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Orbirhynchia bella
Taxonomy
Orbirhynchia bella was named by Pettitt (1954). Its type specimen is B.M. [B.B.12394] and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is East Harnham (Actinocamax quadratus zone), which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in the Upper Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Orbirhynchia bella Pettitt p. 50 figs. Pl. 3, Fig. 6a-c |
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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.
†Orbirhynchia bella Pettitt 1954
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| height | 1 | 6.30 |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Campanian | United Kingdom (England) | Orbirhynchia bella (type locality: 159324) |