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Platyceras chapmani
Taxonomy
Platyceras chapmani was named by Williams and Breger (1916). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is locality 1099C. Edmunds Hill, Chapman Township, which is in a Lochkovian delta front sandstone in the Chapman Sandstone Formation of Maine.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1916 | Platyceras chapmani Williams and Breger pp. 259 – 260 figs. pl. 13 f. 12, 16 |
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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.
†Platyceras chapmani Williams and Breger 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Knight et al. 1960, Batten 1984, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Lochkovian or 419.62000 to 413.02000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lochkovian | USA (Maine) | Platyceras chapmani (type locality: 103288 103297) |