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Modulus tamanensis
Taxonomy
Modulus tamanensis was named by Maury (1925) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene; Trinidad and Tobago.]. Its type specimen is USNM 352686, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS 8301, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Modulus tamanensis Mansfield p. 49 |
| 1925 | Modulus tamanensis Maury p. 237 figs. pl. 40, figs. 2, 3 |
| 2008 | Modulus tamanensis Landau et al. p. 456 |
| 2010 | Modulus tamenensis Landau and Marques da Silva p. 16 |
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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.
†Modulus tamanensis Maury 1925
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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 Burdigalian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 20.45000 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Miocene | Trinidad and Tobago | Modulus tamanensis (type locality: 74925) | |
| Burdigalian | Colombia (La Guajira) | Modulus tamanensis (156356 156625 156795 160770) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Colombia | Modulus tamanensis (106366) | |
| Langhian | Colombia (La Guajira) | Modulus tamanensis (136885 156524 157858) | |
| Middle Miocene | Trinidad and Tobago | Modulus tamanensis (74922) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Venezuela | Modulus tamanensis (79710) |