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Plinthokonion psamminon
Taxonomy
Plinthokonion psamminon was named by Landing and Bartowski (1996). Its type specimen is NYSM 15601, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is E-Bar-2.8 - Keeler's Eskimo Bar ice cream stand, which is in a Dyeran slope siltstone in the Browns Pond Formation of New York.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1996 | Plinthokonion psammion Landing and Bartowski p. 759 figs. 9.6-9.8, 11.12 |
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†Plinthokonion psamminon Landing and Bartowski 1996
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. Landing and K.E. Bartowski 1996 | Possible Plinthokonion species with small, straight, conchs composed of sand grains; tubes with elliptical cross-section and may flare aperturally.
Description. -Tubes composed of fine- to medium-grained quartz sand, cross-section elliptical; most tube fragments neither taper nor show an apparent, preferred arrangement of grains; "apertural" flare present on some larger tubes. |