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Meekella mexicana
Taxonomy
Meekella mexicana was named by Girty (1909).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1909 | Meekella mexicana Girty p. 53 figs. Pl 6, figs 1-5 |
| 1972 | Meekella mexicana Nakamura p. 390 figs. Pl 5, figs 3,4 |
| 1977 | Meekella mexicana Termier and Termier p. 52 |
| 1995 | Meekella mexicana Kues p. 70 figs. 5.11-5.13 |
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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 mexicana Girty 1909
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 10.5 |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Virgilian to the top of the Capitanian or 303.70000 to 259.51000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Virgilian | USA (New Mexico) | Meekella mexicana (156699 156715) | |
| Asselian - Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Meekella mexicana (150579) | |
| Sakmarian | USA (New Mexico) | Meekella mexicana (39155) | |
| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Meekella mexicana (149936 150142 150573 150576) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Meekella mexicana (149933) | |
| Capitanian | Tunisia (Madanin) | Meekella mexicana (42096) |