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Platotropites
Taxonomy
Platotropites was named by Wang and He (1976) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr Carn-u Sepkoski's reference number: 302]. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Tropitidae by Tozer (1981); and to Ceratitida by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Tropitidae by Tozer (1981); and to Ceratitida by Sepkoski (2002).
Species
Synonymy list
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 13.7 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 14.0 | 4.24 | |
| shell diameter | 2 | 34.1 | 27.0 | 43.0 | 35.0 | 11.3 | |
| shell inflation | 2 | 8.77 | 7.00 | 11.0 | 9.00 | 2.83 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||