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Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis
Taxonomy
Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis was named by Fang et al. (2000). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Zhe-6-1 (slice), an egg, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zhangtoucao village, Tiantai, which is in a Cenomanian/Turonian terrestrial horizon in the Chichengshan Formation of China.
It was recombined as Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis by Wang et al. (2011) and Wang et al. (2012).
It was recombined as Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis by Wang et al. (2011) and Wang et al. (2012).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis Fang et al. p. 109–110 |
| 2003 | Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis Fang et al. p. 517 |
| 2011 | Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis Wang et al. p. 449 |
| 2012 | Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis Wang et al. p. 404 |
| 2014 | Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis Moreno-Azanza et al. p. 84 |
| 2014 | Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis Sellés et al. p. 725 |
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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.
†Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis Fang et al. 2000
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Turonian or 105.30000 to 89.80000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Albian | China (Zhejiang) | Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis (204717) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian | China (Zhejiang) | Mosaicoolithus zhangtoucaoensis (204748) Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis (205655) |