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Purdonella merlai
Taxonomy
Purdonella merlai was named by Fantini Sestini (1965). Its type specimen is MPUM P1871 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Camp Staghar glacier front, which is in a Roadian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Shaksgam Formation of China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Purdonella merlai Fantini Sestini p. 198 figs. Pl 24, figs 10-13 |
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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.
†Purdonella merlai Fantini Sestini 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 21.0 |
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| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||