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Comelicania merlai
Taxonomy
Comelicania merlai was named by Posenato (1998). Its type specimen is MDSGF PK52, a valve (ventral valve), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sass di Putia, Bed PK53, which is in a Changhsingian open shallow subtidal wackestone in the Bellerophon Formation of Italy.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Comelicania merlai Posenato |
| 2001 | Comelicania merlai Posenato p. 224 figs. Pl 3, figs 15,17,18 |
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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.
†Comelicania merlai Posenato 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 4 | 21.0 | 9.40 | 30.0 | 26.2 | 9.21 | |
| valve height | 3 | 14.2 | 11.5 | 20.9 | 12.0 | 5.29 |
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: Changhsingian or 254.14000 to 251.90200 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Changhsingian | Italy | Comelicania ladina (type locality: 101933) Comelicania merlai (101908 116439 122397 122401 122403) |