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Lavaloceras geniculatum
Taxonomy
Lavaloceras geniculatum was named by Flower (1952). Its type specimen is a specimen in the collection of G. Winston Sinclair, a partial shell (living chamber and four attached camerae), and it is a cast. Its type locality is Crabtree Mills, which is in a Shermanian/Edenian deep subtidal shelf limestone/shale in the Tetreauville Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Lavaloceras.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1952 | Lavaloceras geniculatum Flower p. 52 figs. 3, 4 Pl. 10 |
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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.
†Lavaloceras geniculatum Flower 1952
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Shermanian to the top of the Edenian or 457.30000 to 450.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Shermanian - Edenian | Canada (Quebec) | Lavaloceras geniculatum (type locality: 89097) |