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Glossothyropsis polita
Taxonomy
Glossothyropsis polita was named by Cooper and Grant (1976). Its type specimen is USNM 153445a, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is not a trace fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1976 | Glossothyropsis polita Cooper and Grant p. 2844 figs. Pl 776, figs 18-33; pl 779, figs 13-16 |
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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.
†Glossothyropsis polita Cooper and Grant 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 6 | 8.63 | 8.10 | 9.30 | 8.50 | 0.561 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wordian to the top of the Capitanian or 266.90000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wordian | USA (Texas) | Glossothyropsis polita (101867 102619 105896 105902) | |
| Capitanian | USA (Texas) | Glossothyropsis polita (106248) |