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Almites pressulus
Taxonomy
Marathonites (Almites) pressulus was named by Ruzhentsev (1956). Its type specimen is PIN 317/13779 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aktasty River, western limestone ridge, Baigendzhinian, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in the Baigendzhin Formation of Kazakhstan.
It was recombined as Almites pressulus by Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002).
It was recombined as Almites pressulus by Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Marathonites (Almites) pressulus Ruzhentsev p. 247 figs. Pl 38, fig 2 |
| 1990 | Almites pressulus Bogoslovskaya p. 71 |
| 2002 | Almites pressulus Leonova p. S78 |
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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.
†Almites pressulus Ruzhentsev 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 19.2 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 36.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 1.70 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | Kazakhstan | Marathonites pressulus (type locality: 116792) |