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Urotheca sampsoni ✝

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	234930	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=234930

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Urotheca : Urotheca sampsoni

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
genus	Urotheca	Matthew 1899
species	Urotheca sampsoni	Resser 1938

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Urotheca sampsoni	species	belongs to Urotheca	stated with evidence	Resser, 1938

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

513 - 501 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

513 - 501 Ma
Cambrian

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. E. Resser. 1938. Middle Cambrian fossils from Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 97(3):1-12

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Urotheca sampsoni Resser p. 5 figs. Pl. 1, fig. 1

Resser C. E. (1938) Middle Cambrian fossils from Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 97 3, 1-12

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!