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Nisusia fulleri
Taxonomy
Nisusia fulleri was named by Mount (1981). Its type specimen is UCR 10/2031 and is a mold. Its type locality is UCR loc. 10, Marble Mountains, which is in a Dyeran marine shale in the Latham Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1981 | Nisusia fulleri Mount pp. 46 - 48 figs. Figures 1 - 2 |
2021 | Nisusia fulleri Liang et al. figs. 5.1–5.7, 9.1 |
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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.
†Nisusia fulleri Mount 1981
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Diagnosis
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J. D. Mount 1981 | The new species is distinguished from all other species of the genus by having the following combination of characteristics: shell medium in size, transversely subrectangular, greatest width at the hinge; sulcus shallow and wide; ornamentation of numerous, narrow, low costellae of three different strengths, with narrow interspaces. |
Measurements
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Source: g = genus, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Caron and Jackson 2008, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 |