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Orthoretiolites hami

Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Lasiograptidae

Taxonomy
Orthoretiolites hami was named by Whittington (1954). Its type specimen is MCZ 511 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Road cut on U. S. Highway 77, 2.5 miles north of Springer, which is in a Chatfieldian offshore mudstone in the Viola Springs Formation of Oklahoma. It is the type species of Orthoretiolites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Orthoretiolites hami Whittington figs. Plate 63; text-figures 1-13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumHemichordataBateson 1885
classPterobranchiaLankester 1877
RankNameAuthor
subclassGraptolithina(Bronn 1849)
orderGraptoloideaLapworth 1875
suborderAxonophoraFrech 1897
infraorderDiplograptina(Lapworth 1880)
familyLasiograptidaeLapworth 1879
genusOrthoretiolites
specieshami

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.

†Orthoretiolites hami Whittington 1954
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Diagnosis
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