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Spitidiscus oregonensis
Taxonomy
Spitidiscus oregonensis was named by Imlay (1960) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Cretaceous; Pacific Coast, North America.]. Its type specimen is USNM 129697, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 718, Riddle, which is in a Hauterivian marine siliciclastic in Oregon.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1960 | Spitidiscus oregonensis Imlay p. 221 figs. pl. 31, figs. 4-6, 8. 9 |
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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.
†Spitidiscus oregonensis Imlay 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 13.0 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 28.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 6.00 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: Hauterivian or 132.60000 to 125.77000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hauterivian | USA (Oregon) | Spitidiscus oregonensis (type locality: 157773 157774) |