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Teresellus goldfieldensis
Taxonomy
Teresellus goldfieldensis was named by Hollingsworth (2005). Its type specimen is USNM 528342 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is TH Pit, which is in a Dyeran open shallow subtidal siltstone/sandstone in the Poleta Formation of Nevada. It is the type species of Teresellus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Teresellus goldfieldensis Hollingsworth p. 135 |
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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.
†Teresellus goldfieldensis Hollingsworth 2005
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. S. Hollingsworth 2005 | Same as the generic diagnosis [An olenellid genus with LA rounded forward, reaching border furrow without preglabellar field. LA approximately equal in width (tr.) to L0; L3 wider than LA. Glabella has distinctly impressed furrows; S2 slightly curved forward. Ocular lobes long, nearly reaching poste- rior border furrow, with distinct ocular furrows; lobes strongly curved with small interocular area. Intergenal spine small, posterlaterally directed, located one-half to two- thirds distance from axial furrow to genal spine angle; inter- genal ridge lacking. Hypostome has five pairs of short pos- terolateral spines. Thoracic axis narrow, less than twice the width of adjacent inner pleural region. T15 has a large axial spine; two thoracic segments posterior to T15. Pygidium elongate.] |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Whittington et al. 1997 | |||||