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Platygoniatites superior
Taxonomy
Platygoniatites superior was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1971). Its type specimen is PIN 455/10190, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ural River, Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, sample 3, which is in an Arnsbergian carbonate limestone in the Russian Federation.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1971 | Platygoniatites superior Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 220 figs. Pl 14, figs 2-4; text-fig 42 |
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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.
†Platygoniatites superior Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 4 | 18.1 | 11.4 | 33.0 | 17.3 | 9.64 | |
| shell diameter | 4 | 34.7 | 21.5 | 65.0 | 33.0 | 19.5 | |
| shell inflation | 4 | 2.20 | 1.00 | 6.00 | 2.15 | 2.29 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Arnsbergian or 327.00000 to 323.70000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serpukhovian | Russian Federation | Platygoniatites superior (236654) | |
| Arnsbergian | Russian Federation (Orenburg) | Platygoniatites superior (166938) | |
| Arnsbergian | Russian Federation (Bashkortostan) | Platygoniatites superior (type locality: 166953) |