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Waipatia maerewhenua
Taxonomy
Waipatia maerewhenua was named by Fordyce (1994). Its type specimen is OU 22095, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is The Earthquakes, which is in a Duntroonian carbonate limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand. It is the type species of Waipatia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Waipatia maerewhenua Fordyce pp. 149-163 figs. 2-12 |
| 2009 | Waipatia maerewhenua Fordyce and Roberts p. 553 |
| 2010 | Waipatia maerewhenua Fitzgerald p. 370 figs. Table 1 |
| 2011 | Waipatia maerewhenua Geisler et al. p. 5 figs. Table 1 |
| 2014 | Waipatia maerewhenua Fornasiero and Del Vavero p. 67 |
| 2014 | Waipatia maerewhenua Tanaka and Fordyce p. 26 |
| 2015 | Waipatia maerewhenua Tanaka and Fordyce |
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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.
†Waipatia maerewhenua Fordyce 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Duntroonian or 27.30000 to 25.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Duntroonian | New Zealand (North Otago) | Waipatia maerewhenua (type locality: 45450) |