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Meekoceras caucasium
Taxonomy
Meekoceras caucasium was named by Shevyrev (1995). Its type specimen is PIN 2689/69 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Yatyrgvarta Mountain, Owenites-Dieneroceras beds, which is in a Smithian marine carbonate in the Yatyrgvarta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Meekoceras caucasium Shevyrev p. 30 figs. Pl 1, figs 7,8 |
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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.
†Meekoceras caucasium Shevyrev 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 5 | 10.6 | 7.40 | 15.8 | 10.9 | 3.08 | |
| shell diameter | 5 | 22.0 | 15.1 | 32.0 | 22.8 | 6.16 | |
| shell inflation | 5 | 4.66 | 3.60 | 5.40 | 4.80 | 0.671 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||