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Kossmatia purisima
Taxonomy
Kossmatia purisima was named by Verma and Westermann (1973). Its type specimen is McM J 1501/2, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Kossmatia purisima Verma and Westermann p. 222 figs. Pl 47, figs 3-6; pl 48, fig 1; text-figs 16E, 21-24 |
| 2006 | Kossmatia purisima Cantu-Chapa p. 304 figs. 3.7, 3.8, 3.12-3.17, 3.19-3.22 |
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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.
†Kossmatia purisima Verma and Westermann 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 14.9 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 28.0 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 11.5 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to the top of the Late/Upper Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | Mexico ( San Luis Potosà ) | Kossmatia purisima (192471) | |
| Late/Upper Tithonian | Mexico | Kossmatia purisima (142314 197726 197729 197730 197732 197733 197734 197738 197747 197968 197970) |