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Meekella enormis
Taxonomy
Meekella enormis was named by Cooper and Grant (1974). Its type specimen is USNM 150890n, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is not a trace fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1974 | Meekella enormis Cooper and Grant pp. 361-362 figs. Pl 69, figs 10-12; pl 106, figs 1-25; pl 107, figs 1-17 |
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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.
†Meekella enormis Cooper and Grant 1974
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 14 | 20.2 | 5.90 | 55.8 | 21.1 | 14.7 |
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| Source: c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Kungurian or 290.10000 to 274.40000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Meekella enormis (43559 43578 43579 43604 75885 75934 105685) | |
| Artinskian - Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Meekella enormis (105684) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Meekella enormis (43534 43565) |