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Nicomedites moderatus
Taxonomy
Gymnotoceras moderatum was named by McLearn (1948). Its type specimen is GSC 9596 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 10696, Alaska Highway, which is in a Bithynian marine siliciclastic in the Toad Formation of Canada.
It was recombined as Anagymnotoceras moderatum by McLearn (1969), Silberling and Nichols (1982); it was recombined as Nicomedites moderatus by Tozer (1994).
It was recombined as Anagymnotoceras moderatum by McLearn (1969), Silberling and Nichols (1982); it was recombined as Nicomedites moderatus by Tozer (1994).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1948 | Gymnotoceras moderatum McLearn p. 34 figs. Pl 10, fig 10 |
| 1969 | Anagymnotoceras moderatum McLearn p. 20 figs. Pl 3, fig 6 |
| 1982 | Anagymnotoceras moderatum Silberling and Nichols p. 25 figs. Pl 6, figs 7,8 |
| 1994 | Nicomedites moderatus Tozer p. 115 figs. Pl 52, fig 14; pl 53, figs 3a,b; pl 56, figs 3a,b; text-figs 41b,c |
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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.
†Nicomedites moderatus McLearn 1948
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 3 | 19.5 | - | - | 19.5 | - | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 58.6 | 39.0 | 93.2 | 55.4 | 27.8 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 9.60 | - | - | 9.60 | - |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||