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Metalegoceras hudsoni
Taxonomy
Metalegoceras hudsoni was named by Miller and Furnish (1957). Its type specimen is SUI 5994 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Haushi, Lower Half of Section, which is in a Sakmarian shallow subtidal limestone in the Saiwan Formation of Oman.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1957 | Metalegoceras hudsoni Miller and Furnish p. 1049 figs. Pl 132, figs 1-3 |
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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.
†Metalegoceras hudsoni Miller and Furnish 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 19.0 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 38.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 9.50 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||