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Opalia (Opalia) wishkahensis
Taxonomy
Opalia (Opalia) wishkahensis was named by Durham (1937). Its type specimen is CAS 7008 and is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. bezanconi, O. brawinderi, O. debouryi, O. forestii, O. grata, O. interrupta, O. plicosa, O. pusilla, O. rugosa, O. rugulosa, O. varicostata, O. deboury, O. fratercula, O. plicata, O. pontileviensis, O. pumilio, O. rugatina, O. schacchi, O. rugifera, O. tehuacana, O. pertusa, O. pertusa, O. pusilla, O. pusilla, O. scacchii, O. soror, O. excentrica
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Opalia (Opalia) wishkahensis Durham p. 502 figs. Plate 56, figure 17 |
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†Opalia (Opalia) wishkahensis Durham 1937
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. W. Durham 1937 | Shell medium, moderately heavy; whorls rather convex in outline; sutures
deep for Opalia; oldest whorls of spire broken, probably about eight; orna- mented by 15 or 16 moderately promi- nent rounded varices with interspaces of equal width, continuous from whorl to whorl; body whorl with a prominent basal keel which is usually barely visible in sutures of the preceding whorls. |
Measurements
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| References: Beu et al. 1990, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Collections
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