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Cibolites africanus
Taxonomy
Cibolites africanus was named by Miller and Furnish (1957). Its type specimen is SUI 8298 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Djebel Tebaga, Bateun Beni Zid Series, which is in a Wordian marine shale in the Bateun Beni Zid Formation of Tunisia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1957 | Cibolites africanus Miller and Furnish p. 710 figs. Pl 83, figs 3,4; text-fig 4 |
| 1975 | Cibolites africanus Spinosa et al. p. 268 |
| 1977 | Cibolites africanus Termier and Termier p. 88 |
| 2002 | Cibolites africanus Leonova |
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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.
†Cibolites africanus Miller and Furnish 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 4.30 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 11.5 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 4.90 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||