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Worcestobia gigantea
Taxonomy
Orthophlebia gigantea was named by Tillyard (1933). Its type specimen is BMNH I 11102, a hindwing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Strensham, Worcestershire, which is in a Rhaetian marine horizon in the Lilstock Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Worcestobia.
It was recombined as Worcestobia gigantea by Soszyńska-Maj et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Worcestobia gigantea by Soszyńska-Maj et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1933 | Orthophlebia gigantea Tillyard p. 42 figs. Fig 15 |
| 1948 | Orthophlebia gigantea Martynova p. 44 |
| 1978 | Orthophlebia gigantea Willmann p. 73 |
| 2018 | Worcestobia gigantea Soszyńska-Maj et al. p. 146 fig. 2 |
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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.
†Worcestobia gigantea Tillyard 1933
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||