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Abyssothyris briggsi
Taxonomy
Abyssothyris briggsi was named by Cooper (1978). Its type specimen is USNM 550840b, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is FB3, Naingatungatu, Viti Levu, which is in a Zanclean marine siliciclastic in the Suva Marl Formation of Fiji.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Abyssothyris briggsi Cooper p. 7 figs. Pl 1, figs 40-46 |
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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.
†Abyssothyris briggsi Cooper 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 4 | 6.68 | 6.00 | 7.30 | 6.75 | 0.606 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||