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Extinct genus of freshwater organisms

Bowengriphus
Temporal range: Late Permian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: incertae sedis
Genus: †Bowengriphus
Ritchie & Edgecome, 2001
Species: †B. perphlegis
Binomial name
†Bowengriphus perphlegis
Ritchie & Edgecome, 2001

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

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.

References

  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. 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" (PDF). Nature. 442 (7099): 159–163. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..159C. doi:10.1038/nature04894. hdl:1912/1404. PMID 16838013. S2CID 4431853.
Taxon identifiers
Bowengriphus


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