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Amphiura
Taxonomy
Amphiura was named by Forbes (1843). It is extant. It is the type genus of Amphiuridae, Amphiuroidea.
It was assigned to Amphiurinae by Matsumoto (1915); and to Amphiuridae by Clark and Twitchell (1915), Spencer and Wright (1966), Jagt (2000), Storc (2004), Storc and Zitt (2008) and O'Hara et al. (2018).
It was assigned to Amphiurinae by Matsumoto (1915); and to Amphiuridae by Clark and Twitchell (1915), Spencer and Wright (1966), Jagt (2000), Storc (2004), Storc and Zitt (2008) and O'Hara et al. (2018).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1843 | Amphiura Forbes |
1915 | Amphiura Clark and Twitchell p. 178 |
1915 | Amphiura Matsumoto p. 69 |
1966 | Amphiura Spencer and Wright p. U100 |
2000 | Amphiura Jagt p. 21 |
2004 | Amphiura Storc p. 37 |
2008 | Amphiura Storc and Zitt p. 130 |
2018 | Amphiura O'Hara et al. p. 20 |
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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.
G. Amphiura Forbes 1843
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†Amphiura cretacea Spencer 1907
†Amphiura lymani Waring 1917
†Amphiura plana Kutscher and Jagt 2000
†Amphiura sanctaecrucis Arnold 1908
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
References: Aberhan 1992, Spencer and Wright 1966, Aberhan et al. 2004 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Tortonian or 99.60000 to 7.24600 Ma
Collections (16 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian | United Kingdom (England) | A. cretacea (59055) | |
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | Czech Republic | A. plana (58092) | |
Early/Lower Turonian | Czech Republic | A. plana (62041) | |
Late/Upper Turonian | Czech Republic | A. plana (99235) | |
Late/Upper Campanian | Belgium (Liege) | A. plana (32147) | |
Late/Upper Campanian | Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) | A. plana (32024) | |
Late/Upper Campanian | France (Landes) | A. sp. (213857 213878) | |
Middle Campanian | USA (California) | A. lymani (193033) | |
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | Mexico (Chihuahua) | A. sp. (80284) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) | A. plana (32022) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Belgium (Liege) | A. plana (32148) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian - Maastrichtian | Denmark | A. plana (32023) | |
Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Danian | Netherlands | A. plana (32160) | |
Tortonian | USA (California) | A. sanctaecrucis (59159) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | USA (California) | A. santaecrucis (37547) |