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Frankites glaber
Taxonomy
Frankites glaber was named by Tozer (1994). Its type specimen is GSC 28798 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC 68234, Boiler Canyon, Liard River, which is in a Longobardian marine siliciclastic in the Toad Formation of Canada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Frankites glaber Tozer p. 164 figs. Pl 83, figs 13-15; text-fig 66a |
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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.
†Frankites glaber Tozer 1994
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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 | 17.7 | 10.5 | 29.9 | 20.2 | 13.7 | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 26.0 | 12.9 | 65.0 | 21.0 | 28.0 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 9.19 | 5.00 | 16.9 | 10.9 | 8.41 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: Longobardian or 239.48000 to 237.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Longobardian | Canada (British Columbia) | Frankites glaber (137961 type locality: 138615) |