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Liroceras choopani
Taxonomy
Liroceras choopani was named by Korn and Ghaderi (2025). Its type specimen is MfN MB.C.32067, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zal, Araxoceras beds, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in the Julfa Formation of Iran.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2025 | Liroceras choopani Korn and Ghaderi p. 84 figs. 41, 42 |
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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.
†Liroceras choopani Korn and Ghaderi 2025
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 3 | 50.9 | 28.0 | 71.0 | 66.5 | 23.6 | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 90.6 | 49.5 | 133.0 | 113.0 | 43.6 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 2.60 | 1.00 | 7.00 | 2.50 | 3.12 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.51000 to 251.90200 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wuchiapingian | Iran | Liroceras choopani (275364 type locality: 275365 275366 275369) Liroceras sp. (119043) | |
| Changhsingian | Iran | Liroceras sp. (119051 119081) |