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Onychoplecia obesa
Taxonomy
Onychoplecia obesa was named by Cooper (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 117090b, a valve, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is ¼ to ⅛ mile east-northeast of the railroad cut, 2.5 miles southwest of Marion, which is in a Whiterockian carbonate limestone in the Row Park Limestone Formation of Pennsylvannia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Onychoplecia obesa Cooper pp. 534 - 535 figs. Plate 100, E, figures 23-27 |
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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.
†Onychoplecia obesa Cooper 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Whiterockian or 470.00000 to 457.30000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Whiterockian | USA (Maryland) | Onychoplecia obesa (186180) | |
| Whiterockian | USA (Pennsylvannia) | Onychoplecia obesa (type locality: 186179) |