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Netastoma squiresi
Taxonomy
Netastoma squiresi was named by Kennedy (1993). Its type specimen is LACMIP 8405, a valve, and it is a mold. Its type locality is CSUN Loc. 967, Santa Susana Mountains, which is in a Ypresian offshore sandstone in the Santa Susana Formation of California.
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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.
†Netastoma squiresi Kennedy 1993
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. L. Kennedy 1993 | Shell average-sized for genus, reaching 12 mm in length and 8 mm in height in juvenile stage, anterior and disc-posterior slopes about equally developed. Anterior slope sculptured by sharp, well-defined concentric ridges and prom- inently intersecting radial ribs forming pointed projections; ra- dial ribs absent close to umbonal-ventral sulcus; concentric ridg- es pass through umbonal-ventral sulcus as sharp, well-defined ridges and continue posteriorly onto the disc at about a 90° angle with sulcus. Umbonal reflection flaring, not overturned (but missing over umbo on holotype), smooth, lacking continuation of concentric sculpture of anterior slope. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Sanchez Roig 1926 | |||||