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Taxonomy
Gemma magna majorina was named by Gardner (1943) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene; Virginia-North Carolina. TYPE: Cotype (1st) measured.]. Its type specimen is USNM 325566, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1943 | Gemma magna majorina Gardner p. 136 figs. pl. 19, figs. 19, 27 |
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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.
†Gemma magna majorina Gardner 1943
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.77400 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (North Carolina) | Gemma magna (59328 59329) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (North Carolina) | Gemma magna (59309) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (North Carolina) | Gemma magna (58897 59316) |