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Tubersulculus maximus
Taxonomy
Tubersulculus maximus was named by Waterhouse (1971). Its type specimen is GSC 26393 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is JBW24, Ettrain Creek, which is in a Sakmarian marine sandstone in the Jungle Creek Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Tubersulculus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Tubersulculus maximus Waterhouse p. 209 figs. Pl 23, figs 1-11 |
| 1996 | Tubersulculus maximus Shi and Waterhouse p. 58 figs. Pl 4, figs 24-29; pl 5, figs 1-9 |
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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.
†Tubersulculus maximus Waterhouse 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 2 | 10.2 | 7.00 | 15.0 | 11.0 | 5.66 |
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Williams et al. 2000 | |||||
Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Artinskian or 293.52000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Sakmarian | Canada (Yukon) | Tubersulculus maximus (117712 117713 117723 117733 type locality: 117737 117741 117744 117755 117756 117758 117759 117760 121750 121751) | |
| Artinskian | Canada (Yukon) | Tubersulculus maximus (117715 117716 117722 117728) |