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Gacella ponderosa
Taxonomy
Gacella ponderosa was named by Williams (1962). Its type specimen is BB. 15467, a shell (complete shell), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1962 | Gacella ponderosa Williams pp. 223 - 224 figs. P1. XXII, figs. 23, 24; P1. XXIII, fig. 1 |
| 2014 | Gacella ponderosa Candela and Harper pp. Supplement 1 |
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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.
†Gacella ponderosa Williams 1962
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Williams 1962 | Large, biconvex, transversely semi-oval Gacella, slightly less than two-thirds as long as wide, with a low dorsal fold arising at about 5 mm. from the umbo, and an equally shallow ventral sulcus, presumably ending in a broad, dorsally projecting tongue; ornamentation costellate and cancellate with about 5 costellae per millimetre antero-medianly; ventral interarea long, strongly apsacline |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||