Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Alternative combinations: Perrinites cumminsi, Properrinites cumminsi, Ptychites cumminsi, Waagenoceras cumminsi
Synonym: Abichia (Properrinites) karpinskyi Toumanskaya 1949
Full reference: C. A. White. 1889. On the Permian formation of Texas. The American Naturalist 23(266):109-128
Belongs to Metaperrinites according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Cooper and Grant 1977, Plummer and Scott 1937, Smith 1903, Tharalson 1984, White 1889 and White 1891
Sister taxa: Metaperrinites involutus, Metaperrinites ishibashii, Metaperrinites milleri, Metaperrinites obsoletus, Metaperrinites schucherti, Metaperrinites shaiwaensis, Metaperrinites toumanskayae, Metaperrinites vicinus, Metaperrinites waageni, Mapirites latumbilicatus, Ripernites pressulus, Nepirrites medius, Paraperrinites subcumminsi, Paraperrinites brouweri
Type specimens:
- Metaperrinites cumminsi: Its type locality is Old Military Crossing, Whiskey Creek, Wichita River, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Clyde Formation of Texas
- Abichia (Properrinites) karpinskyi:
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 32.8
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (4: Texas collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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