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Tegula thea
Taxonomy
Tegula thea was named by Nomland (1917). Its type specimen is UCMP 2275, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2275, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in the Santa Margarita Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. abavus, T. americanus, T. brunneri, T. calusa, T. cooksoni, T. exoluta, T. fasciata, T. fasciatum, T. gallina, T. lindae, T. lividomaculata, T. marcida, T. mariana, T. orbignyana, T. panamensis, T. phalera, T. princeps, T. rubroflammulata, T. rustica, T. snodgrassi, T. stantoni, T. claibornensis, T. fasciatum, T. felipensis, T. mariana, T. phalera, T. puntagordana, T. puntagordanum, T. trilirata, T. gallina, T. rugata, T. exoleta, T. rustica, T. exoleta, T. jeguaensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1917 | Tegula thea Nomland pp. 310 - 311 figs. Plate 20, figures 6, 7a, 7b |
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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.
†Tegula thea Nomland 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, c = class | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.63000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (California) | Tegula thea (216199 216201 216204 216206 type locality: 216207) |