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Proptychites plicatus
Taxonomy
Proptychites plicatus was named by Waagen (1895). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Amb, Stachella beds, Salt Range, which is in a Smithian coastal sandstone in the Ceratites Sandstone Formation of Pakistan.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1895 | Proptychites plicatus Waagen p. 182 figs. Pl 24, fig 3 |
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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.
†Proptychites plicatus Waagen 1895
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 12.0 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 26.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 7.00 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||