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Volutoderma blakei
Taxonomy
Volutoderma blakei was named by Saul and Squires (2008). Its type specimen is LACMIP 13174 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCLA Loc. 2415, Bee Canyon, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone in the Williams Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2008 | Volutoderma blakei Saul and Squires p. 228 figs. Figure 6.1–6.4 |
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†Volutoderma blakei Saul and Squires 2008
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires 2008 | Large Volutoderma, shell slender in youth but with expanded penultimate and ultimate whorls; both spiral and axial sculpture at small and intermediate shell sizes, but primarily spiral cords at maturity; growth line sharply sinused at suture. |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 89.80000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Cretaceous | USA (California) | Rostellites gabbi (193032) | |
| Coniacian | USA (California) | Volutoderma blakei (158090) Volutoderma gabbi (44271) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (California) | Volutoderma blakei (72057 86793 type locality: 86872) |