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Metaperrinites cumminsi
Taxonomy
Ptychites cumminsi was named by White (1889). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Old Military Crossing, Whiskey Creek, Wichita River, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Clyde Formation of Texas.
It was recombined as Waagenoceras cumminsi by White (1891) and Smith (1903); it was recombined as Perrinites cumminsi by Plummer and Scott (1937); it was recombined as Properrinites cumminsi by Cooper and Grant (1977) and Tharalson (1984); it was recombined as Metaperrinites cumminsi by Leonova (2002).
It was recombined as Waagenoceras cumminsi by White (1891) and Smith (1903); it was recombined as Perrinites cumminsi by Plummer and Scott (1937); it was recombined as Properrinites cumminsi by Cooper and Grant (1977) and Tharalson (1984); it was recombined as Metaperrinites cumminsi by Leonova (2002).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1889 | Ptychites cumminsi White p. 117 figs. Pl 1, figs 4-8 |
| 1891 | Waagenoceras cumminsi White p. 20 figs. Pl 1, figs 4-8 |
| 1903 | Waagenoceras cumminsi Smith p. 139 figs. Pl 22, figs 4-8 |
| 1937 | Perrinites cumminsi Plummer and Scott p. 311 figs. Pl 25, figs 9-13 |
| 1949 | Abichia (Properrinites) karpinskyi Toumanskaya p. 64 |
| 1977 | Properrinites cumminsi Cooper and Grant |
| 1984 | Properrinites cumminsi Tharalson p. 825 figs. 19, 20 |
| 2002 | Metaperrinites cumminsi Leonova p. S71 |
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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.
†Metaperrinites cumminsi White 1889
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Invalid names: Abichia (Properrinites) karpinskyi Toumanskaya 1949 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 3 | 19.9 | 16.5 | 24.0 | 20.2 | 5.30 | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 32.8 | 21.4 | 42.0 | 39.0 | 11.1 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 12.2 | 11.0 | 13.5 | 12.2 | 1.77 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Perrinites cumminsi (128587 131556) Properrinites cumminsi (43588) Ptychites cumminsi (type locality: 108766) |