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Obturgites polysarcus
Taxonomy
Obturgites polysarcus was named by Ebbighausen et al. (2010). Its type specimen is MfN MB.C.18613.1, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is TIM-C7, Sebkha de Timimoun, which is in a Chadian carbonate limestone in the Argiles de Timimoun Inférieur Formation of Algeria. It is the type species of Obturgites.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Obturgites polysarcus Ebbighausen et al. p. 190 figs. 36, 37 |
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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.
†Obturgites polysarcus Ebbighausen et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 9 | 18.0 | 9.10 | 40.0 | 17.2 | 9.29 | |
| shell diameter | 9 | 40.7 | 20.7 | 92.9 | 38.9 | 21.6 | |
| shell inflation | 9 | 8.28 | 4.60 | 17.4 | 8.20 | 3.72 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||