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Meekia (Mygallia) lirata
Taxonomy
Meekia (Mygallia) lirata was named by Saul and Popenoe (1962). Its type specimen is UCLA 36094, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CIT loc. 1267, Little Cow Creek Valley, which is in a Turonian coastal horizon in the Redding Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1962 | Meekia (Mygallia) lirata Saul and Popenoe p. 307 figs. pl. 4, figs. 11-15 |
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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.
†Meekia (Mygallia) lirata Saul and Popenoe 1962
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class | |||||
| References: Sanchez Roig 1926, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Turonian or 93.90000 to 89.80000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Turonian | USA (California) | Meekia lirata (222119) | |
| Turonian | USA (California) | Meekia lirata (185502 214143 type locality: 222112 222113) |