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Newellites richardsoni
Taxonomy
Waagenoceras richardsoni was named by Plummer and Scott (1937). Its type specimen is UT B3373 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is B.E.G. 55-T-3, Chico Draw, southeast of Casey's Last Chance well, which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in the Cherry Canyon Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Newellites.
It was synonymized subjectively with Waagenoceras dieneri by Miller and Furnish (1940); it was recombined as Newellites richardsoni by Zhao (1980), Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002), Leonova (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Waagenoceras dieneri by Miller and Furnish (1940); it was recombined as Newellites richardsoni by Zhao (1980), Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002), Leonova (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Waagenoceras richardsoni Plummer and Scott p. 158 figs. Pl 39, figs 9-11 |
| 1980 | Newellites richardsoni Zhao p. 81 fig. 2b |
| 1990 | Newellites richardsoni Bogoslovskaya p. 74 |
| 2002 | Newellites richardsoni Leonova p. S87 |
| 2010 | Newellites richardsoni Leonova |
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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.
†Newellites richardsoni Plummer and Scott 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 51.5 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 93.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 18.0 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||