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Zinsitys meisteri
Taxonomy
Zinsitys meisteri was named by Saul (1988). Its type specimen is LACMIP 7245, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CIT loc. 1007, Oak Run, which is in a Coniacian coastal siliciclastic in the Redding Formation of California. It is the type species of Zinsitys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Zinsitys meisteri Saul p. 17 figs. Figures 94, 97-10 I |
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†Zinsitys meisteri Saul 1988
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. R. Saul 1988 | Short Zinsitys (the spire height is less than the diameter at the periphery) with only the posterior biangulation exposed on the spire. The columella has two pseudofolds. and the outer lip is well notched at both angulations and 1sornamented with denticulations both anterior and posterior to the bifid denticula tion. |
Measurements
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