Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.194.2721 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BDC99B88-B023-E270-BB5B-771E111B3EF9 |
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Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968 |
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Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968 Fig. 3M View Figure 3
Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael 1968: 149, pl. 11 figs 7-9; Crespin 1974: 125.
Type locality.
[Northern Territory] "4 miles east-north-east of Deep Well homestead, near Alice Springs, N.T.".
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No labels, see Remarks.
Dimensions.
"Maximum height 14.00, maximum diameter 9.00 (mm)"; holotype H 14.17, D 9.03, W 3+.
Type material.
CPC6906, holotype; CPC6907-CPC6909, three paratypes.
Remarks.
This is a fossil species from Tertiary age; no further details are known about the dating of the horizon where the shells were found. "The holotype is an isolated steinkern of an immature shell" ( McMichael 1968); the top of the shell is damaged. The paratypes are larger, up to 20.0 mm. The specimens are not accompanied with labels, but Crespin (1974) provides as data "6.5 km ENE of Deep Well hstd [homestead], near Alice Springs, N.T. (loc. Rd21)" [Holotype and paratypes 1-2], "18 km NE of Deep Well hstd, near Alice Springs, N.T. (loc. NT409)" [Paratype 3].
Current systematic position.
Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968.
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Bothriembryon praecursor McMichael, 1968
Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S. 2012 |
Bothriembryon praecursor
McMichael 1968 |