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Mesotaphraspis inornata
Taxonomy
Mesotaphraspis inornata was named by Whittington and Evitt (1953). It is not extant. Its type specimen is USNM 116539. Its type locality is Loc. 1. Tumbling Run, 2 miles southwest of Strasburg, which is in a Blackriveran carbonate limestone in the Lincolnshire Limestone Formation of Virginia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Mesotaphraspis inornata Whittington and Evitt p. 48 figs. pl. 24 f. 1-39 |
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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.
†Mesotaphraspis inornata Whittington and Evitt 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Alvarez et al. 2008, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||
Age range: Blackriveran or 457.30000 to 449.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blackriveran | USA (Virginia) | Mesotaphraspis inornata (type locality: 73340) |