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Kielania tumula
Taxonomy
Kielania tumula was named by Johnson (2024). Its type specimen is NHMUK It 29259, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2024 | Kielania tumula Johnson p. 63 figs. Pl.16A-L |
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†Kielania tumula Johnson 2024
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. G. Johnson 2024 | Cephalon sub oval, widest (tr.) at alae. Axial furrows broad and shallow. No muscle insertion furrows at S2, S3 or S4, and S1 only shallow depression in axial furrow. Alar furrows almost effaced. Eye lobes barely inflated and eye ridge indistinct. Genal roll gently sloping. Brim convex and brim width ratio around 0.90. No caeca on brim, and perforations around outside of brim large and widely spaced. External rim tilted outwards with marginal band sloping under cephalon. In lateral view, internal rim only slightly concave and steeply declining to terminal spine. |
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available