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Churkites egregius
Taxonomy
Churkites egregius was named by Zharnikova and Okuneva (1990). Its type specimen is CGM 1/10379, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Artyomovka River basin, which is in a Smithian marine horizon in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Churkites.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Churkites egregius Zharnikova and Okuneva p. 134 figs. Pl 14, figs 1-3; text-fig 6 |
| 2015 | Churkites egregius Shigeta and Kumagae p. 225 figs. 7-12 |
| 2024 | Churkites egregius Zakharov et al. p. 36 figs. 5e, 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.
†Churkites egregius Zharnikova and Okuneva 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 8 | 68.5 | 31.3 | 106.2 | 71.9 | 24.1 | |
| shell diameter | 8 | 167.2 | 59.0 | 280.0 | 182.6 | 73.0 | |
| shell inflation | 8 | 45.9 | 8.70 | 93.0 | 57.8 | 28.6 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||