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Sassia nigeriana
Taxonomy
Sassia nigeriana was named by Adegoke (1977). Its type specimen is USNM 174742 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Caronia flandrica, Charonia antiqua, Charonia benoisti, Charonia bicincta, Charonia bjerringi, Charonia briarti, Charonia cnneata, Charonia colubrina, Charonia curtula, Charonia dumortieri, Charonia flandrica, Charonia flandrica, Charonia flandriea, Charonia formosa, Charonia mariae, Charonia multigrana, Charonia multigranifera, Charonia nodularia, Charonia planicostata, Charonia planisulcata, Charonia reticulosa, Charonia scabriuscula, Charonia simplicostata, Charonia striatula, Charonia tarbelliana, Charonia tritonea, Charonia tuberculosa, Charonia vincenti, Charonia viperina, Eutritonium permutabile, S. abbotti, S. antiqua, S. appeninica, S. arguta, S. arguta, S. bicegoi, S. bileneata, S. bjerringi, S. borsoni, S. conradiana, S. delafossei, S. expansa, S. faxense, S. flandrica, S. foveolata, S. granosa, S. inornatum, S. laevigata, S. monilifera, S. oligostira, S. rutoti, S. sussexiensis, S. tarbelliana, S. tortirostris, S. tuberculifera, S. abbreviata, S. fennemai, S. marwicki, S. pahaoaensis, S. subspinosum
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Sassia nigeriana Adegoke p. 210 figs. Plate 32, Figs. 1-5 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Sassia nigeriana Adegoke 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available