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Epicymatoceras monstrum
Taxonomy
Epicymatoceras monstrum was named by Shimansky (1975). Its type specimen is PIN 1619/47, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Uzen valley, Mangyshlak Peninsula, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in Kazakhstan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Epicymatoceras monstrum Shimansky p. 122 figs. Pl 27, fig 3; text-fig 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.
†Epicymatoceras monstrum Shimansky 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 53.0 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 120.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 33.0 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Maastrichtian | Kazakhstan | Epicymatoceras monstrum (165614 type locality: 165632 165961) |