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Gauthiericeras albiforme
Taxonomy
Gauthiericeras albiforme was named by Klinger and Kennedy (1984) [DISTRIBUTION: Coniacian; South Africa.]. Its type specimen is SAS 92/4, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Picnic Point, False Bay (between locality 83 and 84), which is in a Coniacian marine siltstone in the St Lucia Formation of South Africa.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1984 | Gauthiericeras albiforme Klinger and Kennedy p. 278 figs. figs. 127-129 |
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†Gauthiericeras albiforme Klinger and Kennedy 1984
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 3 | 58.5 | 48.0 | 72.0 | 58.0 | 12.1 | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 148.5 | 113.0 | 181.0 | 160.0 | 34.8 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 46.8 | 30.0 | 62.0 | 55.0 | 16.8 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Coniacian or 89.80000 to 85.70000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Coniacian | South Africa | Gauthiericeras albiforme (type locality: 158492) |