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Taxonomy
Pteria spedeni was named by Waterhouse (1960). Its type specimen is NZGS TM 2172 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GS 7526, Mt. Heslington (N28/f7619), which is in an Otamitan marine horizon in New Zealand.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. aculeati, P. africana, P. caudata, P. coturnix, P. falcata, P. gansingensis, P. hofmanni, P. nitida, P. percompressa, P. petropolitana, P. phalaenacea, P. pygmaea, P. rostrata, P. serini, P. stoppanii, P. tanganyicensis, P. tofanae, P. tofaniea, P. ussurica, P. texturata, P. petropolitana, P. petropolitana
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1960 | Pteria spedeni Waterhouse p. 431 figs. 5-7 |
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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.
†Pteria spedeni Waterhouse 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 30.0 |
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Voigt 1973, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||