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Maorites tuberculatus
Taxonomy
Maorites tuberculatus was named by Howard (1958) [DISTRIBUTION: Campanian; Antarctica.]. It is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1958 | Maorites tuberculatus Howard pp. 11-12 figs. pl. 2, figs. 1-3 |
| 1986 | Maorites tuberculatus Macellari p. 39 |
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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.
†Maorites tuberculatus Howard 1958
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 25.0 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 54.1 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 16.8 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Antarctica | Maorites tuberculatus (66730 82984 82985 82986 158436 158437) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Antarctica | Maorites tuberculatus (83551 83552) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | Maorites tuberculatus (166005 166006 166007) | |
| Maastrichtian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | Maorites tuberculatus (3156) |