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Protactoclymenia giganta
Taxonomy
Protactoclymenia giganta was named by Becker and House (2002). Its type specimen is MfN MB.C.3520, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Seheb el Rhassal, orbiculare Bed, which is in a Famennian marine siliciclastic in Morocco.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2002 | Protactoclymenia giganta Becker and House p. 185 figs. 7j, Pl. 6: Figs - 9-11 |
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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.
†Protactoclymenia giganta Becker and House 2002
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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shell height | 3 | 39.1 | 25.6 | 70.1 | 33.3 | 23.8 | |
shell diameter | 3 | 94.0 | 59.5 | 173.0 | 80.7 | 60.3 | |
shell inflation | 3 | 28.0 | 17.1 | 54.5 | 23.5 | 20.0 |
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References: Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 |
Age range: Middle Famennian or 368.50000 to 365.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Middle Famennian | Morocco | Protactoclymenia giganta (type locality: 179113) |