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Plectelasma kingi
Taxonomy
Plectelasma kingi was named by Cooper and Grant (1969). Its type specimen is UNSM 153355b, a shell (Articulated shell), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM708e, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Skinner Ranch Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Plectelasma.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Plectelasma kingi Cooper and Grant p. 17 figs. Pl 5, figs 1-6 |
| 1976 | Plectelasma kingi Cooper and Grant p. 2904 figs. Pl 755, figs 53-80; pl 778, figs 18-23 |
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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.
†Plectelasma kingi Cooper and Grant 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 7.19 | 6.80 | 7.60 | 7.20 | 0.566 |
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||