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Cosmomya (Palaeocosmomya) aplata
Taxonomy
Palaeocosmomya aplatum was named by Fletcher (1946). Its type specimen is UWA WL1(A) and is a mold. Its type locality is UWA WL1, Coolkilya Pool, Minilya River, which is in an Artinskian marine shale in the Quinnanie Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Cosmomya (Palaeocosmomya) aplata by Dickins and Shah (1965).
It was recombined as Cosmomya (Palaeocosmomya) aplata by Dickins and Shah (1965).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1946 | Palaeocosmomya aplatum Fletcher p. 403 figs. Pl 35, figs 7,8 |
| 1965 | Cosmomya (Palaeocosmomya) aplata Dickins and Shah p. 257 figs. Pl 17, figs 11, 12 |
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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.
†Cosmomya (Palaeocosmomya) aplata Fletcher 1946
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 25.0 |
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| References: Clapham 2015, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Australia (Western Australia) | Palaeocosmomya aplatum (type locality: 101256) |