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Cassianoides kingorum
Taxonomy
Cassianoides kingorum was named by Newell and Boyd (1995). Its type specimen is AMNH 43405, a valve (Left valve), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is AMNH512, Guadalupe Pass, Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Roadian slope limestone in the Cherry Canyon Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Cassianoides.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Cassianoides kingorum Newell and Boyd p. 33 fig. 20 |
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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.
†Cassianoides kingorum Newell and Boyd 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| valve height | 13 | 6.20 | 3.70 | 8.50 | 6.90 | 1.53 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Artinskian to the top of the Roadian or 290.10000 to 268.80000 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artinskian | USA (Texas) | Cassianoides kingorum (43520 75885) | |
| Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Cassianoides kingorum (43496 43497 43517 75865 75881) | |
| Roadian | USA (Texas) | Cassianoides kingorum (43512 43548 43551 43553 type locality: 81693 81722 101767 102602 102605) |