Bowengriphus

<i>Bowengriphus</i>

Bowengriphus

Extinct genus of freshwater organisms

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

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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]
    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. [2]
    the Late Permian Rangal Coal Measures of eastern central Queensland.
  3. [3]
    Caron, J.-B.; Scheltema, A.; Schander, C.; Rudkin, D. (2006). "A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale" (PDF). Nature. 442 (7099): 159–163. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..159C. doi:10.1038/nature04894. hdl:1912/1404. PMID 16838013. S2CID 4431853.


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