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Discotropis sulcifer
Taxonomy
Euomphalus sulcifer was named by Girty (1908). Its type specimen is USNM 119153 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM707e, Sullivan Peak, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian slope limestone in the Road Canyon Formation of Texas.
It was recombined as Discotropis sulcifer by Yochelson (1956) and Quiroz-Barroso et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Discotropis sulcifer by Yochelson (1956) and Quiroz-Barroso et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1908 | Euomphalus sulcifer Girty p. 482 figs. Pl 16, figs 23-24a |
| 1956 | Discotropis sulcifer Yochelson p. 242 figs. Pl 20, figs 8-19 |
| 2021 | Discotropis sulcifer Quiroz-Barroso et al. p. 5 figs. 2.11, 2.12 |
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†Discotropis sulcifer Girty 1908
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 8 | 5.55 | 2.60 | 14.0 | 4.75 | 4.26 |
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Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Discotropis sulcifer (43492 43513) | |
| Roadian | Mexico (Chiapas) | Discotropis sulcifer (220046) | |
| Roadian | USA (Texas) | Discotropis sulcifer (43512 type locality: 43563) Euomphalus sulcifer (108803) | |
| Wordian | USA (Texas) | Euomphalus sulcifer (108821) |