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Foordiceras decacanthum
Taxonomy
Foordiceras decacanthum was named by Korn and Hairapetian (2025). Its type specimen is MfN MB.C.30224, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baghuk Mountain, Vedioceras beds float, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate lime mudstone in the Hambast Formation of Iran.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2025 | Foordiceras decacanthum Korn and Hairapetian p. 33 fig. 17 |
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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.
†Foordiceras decacanthum Korn and Hairapetian 2025
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 19.7 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 61.9 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 27.5 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.51000 to 254.14000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wuchiapingian | Iran | Foordiceras decacanthum (type locality: 275379) |