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Kraussina laevicostata
Taxonomy
Kraussina laevicostata was named by Brunton and Hiller (1990). Its type specimen is BD6730, a partial shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Koingnass (50m Unit) (coll. Pether), which is in a Messinian shoreface sandstone in the Alexander Bay Formation of South Africa.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Kraussina laevicostata Brunton and Hiller p. 333 figs. Txt. fig. 9a-h |
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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.
†Kraussina laevicostata Brunton and Hiller 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 21.1 |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||