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Taxonomy
Placunopsis minuta was named by Lundgren (1895). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cape Stewart (gray sandstone), which is in a Pliensbachian marine sandstone in the Cape Stewart Beds Formation of Greenland.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1895 | Placunopsis minuta Lundgren p. 197 figs. Pl. 3, Fig. 11 |
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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.
†Placunopsis minuta Lundgren 1895
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Pliensbachian or 189.60000 to 183.00000 Ma
Collections (17 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliensbachian | Greenland | Placunopsis minuta (161207 type locality: 161208 161968 161972 161975 162078 162083 162110 162113 162282) | |
| Early/Lower Pliensbachian | Greenland | Placunopsis minuta (161983) | |
| Jamesoni | Greenland | Placunopsis minuta (161976 162071 162072 162111 162272 162275) |