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Volocephalina contracta
Taxonomy
Volocephalina contracta was named by Palmer and Halley (1979). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pyramid Peak (USGS 4158-CO), which is in a Delamaran shallow subtidal lime mudstone/mudstone in the Carrara Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1979 | Volocephalina contracta Palmer and Halley p. 117 figs. Plate 14, figures 13-16, 20 |
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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.
†Volocephalina contracta Palmer and Halley 1979
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||