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Kelletia vladimiri
Taxonomy
Kelletia vladimiri was named by Kanakoff (1954). Its type specimen is LACMIP 1097, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is LACMIP loc. 291, Sand Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, which is in a Pliocene marine siltstone in the Pico Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Kelletia vladimiri Kanakoff pp. 114 - 117 figs. Plate 29, figures A and B |
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†Kelletia vladimiri Kanakoff 1954
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. P. Kanakoff 1954 | Shell of medium size, fusiform, slender, with seven whorls; ornamented by ten axially elongated nodules on the upper part of the body whorl, and on the whole width of the following whorls, and numerous and equally spaced, sharply incised spiral lines, which cover the whole shell; spire acuminated at 22.5 degrees to the axis of the shell; sutures slightly undulated, sharp, and descencling at an angle of 19 degrees to the axis of the shell; aperture elongate-ovate; inner lip reflexed, smooth; outer lip slightly thickened, with 11 ridges on the inner callus; canal long, twisted, With strongly recurved siphonal fasciole. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||