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Otostoma aethes
Taxonomy
Otostoma aethes was named by Squires and Saul (1993). Its type specimen is UCMP 398607, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP Loc. B-2368, Dip Creek, which is in a Maastrichtian/Paleocene marine sandstone in California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1993 | Otostoma aethes Squires and Saul p. 261 figs. Figures 2-4 |
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†Otostoma aethes Squires and Saul 1993
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul 1993 | An Otostoma with prominent shoulder on body whorl, a few low spiral ribs on anterior third of body whorl, noded at intersections by low collabral ribs; deck broad and rather flat with seven subequal teeth along inner lip margin. |
Measurements
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Early/Lower Paleocene or 70.60000 to 61.70000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Early/Lower Paleocene | USA (California) | Otostoma aethes (type locality: 214145) |