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Bellerophon chesterensis
Taxonomy
Bellerophon chesterensis was named by Weller (1920). It is not extant. Its type locality is Locality 13. North of Cave Creek, 3½ miles southeast of Vienna, which is in a Chesterian carbonate limestone in the Golconda Formation of Illinois.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1920 | Bellerophon chesterensis Weller |
| 1974 | Bellerophon chesterensis Thein and Nitecki pp. 44 - 46 figs. f. 11 |
| 2023 | Bellerophon chesterensis Wagner p. 6087 |
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†Bellerophon chesterensis Weller 1920
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available