Biology:Bowengriphus

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Short description: Extinct genus of freshwater organisms

Bowengriphus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: incertae sedis
Genus: Bowengriphus
Ritchie & Edgecome, 2001[1]
Species:
B. perphlegis
Binomial name
Bowengriphus perphlegis
Ritchie & Edgecome, 2001[1]

Bowengriphus is a freshwater organism known from Late Permian deposits in Australia [2] that reached about 15 cm in length.[1]

It was originally interpreted as a relative of Odontogriphus, but a re-analysis of this fossil discounted any relationship, placing the fossil as incertae sedis.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ritchie, A.; Edgecombe, G. D. (2001). "An Odontogriphid from the Upper Permian of Australia". Palaeontology 44 (5): 861–874. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00205. 
  2. the Late Permian Rangal Coal Measures of eastern central Queensland.
  3. Caron, J.-B.; Scheltema, A.; Schander, C.; Rudkin, D. (2006). "A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale". Nature 442 (7099): 159–163. doi:10.1038/nature04894. PMID 16838013. Bibcode2006Natur.442..159C. https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/handle/1912/1404/2006-02-01613A.Caron+et+al.+ms.pdf?sequence=1. 

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