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Bellerophon bristolensis
Taxonomy
Bellerophon bristolensis was named by Weir (1931). Its type specimen is Bristol Museum C. 932, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ashton Vale Colliery, Bristol, which is in a Westphalian A delta plain shale in the South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Bellerophon bristolensis Weir p. 800 figs. pl 5 f. 4 |
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†Bellerophon bristolensis Weir 1931
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| J. Weir 1931 | Dorsum ornamented with narrow imbricating lamellae, which are almost straight and make an obtuse angle with the band. Band wide, excavated, and without any determinable ornament on the holotype. Umbilicus indeterminable. |