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Teichertina americana
Taxonomy
Teichertina americana was named by Johnson (1970). Its type specimen is USNM 162827, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM 10802. 9100 feet ESE of Western Peak, Roberts Mountains, which is in an Eifelian marine packstone in the Denay Limestone Formation of Nevada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1970 | Teichertina americana Johnson pp. 255 - 256 figs. P1. 51, figs. 1-15 |
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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.
†Teichertina americana Johnson 1970
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. G. Johnson 1970 | Spiriferoid in form with parvicostellate ornament; interiors deeply radially ridged; ventral muscle scar short, broad, not differentiated; dorsal muscle field with muscle bounding ridges. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy 2009, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||