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Hercoglossa walteri
Taxonomy
Hercoglossa walteri was named by Miller (1947) [DISTRIBUTION: Paleocene; Gulf Coastal Plain.]. Its type specimen is SUI 1085, a partial shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is South of Highway 96, northeast of Kimbrough, which is in a Danian deep subtidal ramp packstone in the Clayton Formation of Alabama.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1947 | Hercoglossa walteri Miller p. 62 figs. pl. 46, figs. 1, 2 |
| 1999 | Hercoglossa walteri CasadÃo et al. p. 196 figs. 3C, 5A |
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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.
†Hercoglossa walteri Miller 1947
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 2 | 121.2 | 105.0 | 140.0 | 122.5 | 24.7 | |
| shell diameter | 2 | 245.0 | 245.0 | 245.0 | 245.0 | - | |
| shell inflation | 2 | 0.187 | 0.001 | 35.0 | 17.5 | 24.7 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||