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Ponticeras altaicum
Taxonomy
Ponticeras altaicum was named by Bogoslovsky (1958). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ridge northeast of Nikolaevskoe mine, which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone in Kazakhstan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1958 | Ponticeras altaicum Bogoslovsky |
| 1969 | Ponticeras altaicum Bogoslovsky p. 207 figs. Pl 8, fig 14 |
| 2002 | Ponticeras altaicum Korn and Klug p. 98 |
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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.
†Ponticeras altaicum Bogoslovsky 1958
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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 | 7.07 | 6.30 | 8.00 | 7.00 | 0.854 | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 18.7 | 17.0 | 20.7 | 18.7 | 1.85 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 6.83 | 6.00 | 7.60 | 7.00 | 0.808 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Frasnian or 375.20000 to 372.15000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Frasnian | Kazakhstan | Ponticeras altaicum (type locality: 172139) |