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Jacobites crofti
Taxonomy
Jacobites crofti was named by Spath (1953). Its type specimen is BMNH C.41355, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is D.84.7, Dagger Peak, James Ross Island, which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in Antarctica.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Jacobites crofti Spath p. 27 figs. Pl 4, figs 2,3 |
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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.
†Jacobites crofti Spath 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 29.3 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 65.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 18.9 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Campanian | Antarctica | Jacobites crofti (type locality: 166143 166167) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Antarctica | Jacobites crofti (83550) |