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Voluta africana
Taxonomy
Voluta africana was named by Adegoke (1977). Its type specimen is UIMG 384 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
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Voluta africana Adegoke p. 200 figs. Plate 30, Figs. 27-29 |
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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.
†Voluta africana Adegoke 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Selandian to the top of the Pleistocene or 61.66000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Selandian | Nigeria | Voluta africana (type locality: 7791) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | Voluta africana (77479 77527) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Voluta africana (122945) |