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Metacoceras knighti
Taxonomy
Metacoceras knighti was named by Miller and Thomas (1936). Its type specimen is SUI 1155/6 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gilmore Canyon, Stenopoceras beds, 8 miles SE of Laramie, which is in an Asselian marine limestone in the Casper Formation of Wyoming.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1936 | Metacoceras knighti Miller and Thomas p. 728 figs. Pl 97, figs 2,3 |
| 1949 | Metacoceras knighti Miller and Youngquist p. 112 figs. Pl 47, figs 2,3 |
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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.
†Metacoceras knighti Miller and Thomas 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 45.0 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 115.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 33.0 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||