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Anhuiconus agrenon
Taxonomy
Anhuiconus agrenon was named by Vendrasco et al. (2010) [Anhuiconus? agrenon]. Its type specimen is CPC 39740, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Section 417, Georgina Basin, Thorntonia Area, which is in a Floran sand shoal lime mudstone in the Gowers Formation of Australia.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2010 | Anhuiconus agrenon Vendrasco et al. p. 129 figs. txt. f. 3H-I; pl. 4 f. 10-15 |
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†Anhuiconus agrenon Vendrasco et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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M. J. Vendrasco et al. 2010 | Low, patelliform shell with oval aperture, coiled about half a whorl, expanding broadly; apex at or just below plane of aperture; shell microstructure consists of a middle layer of prisms that is covered ventrally by a thin nacreous layer.
Shell patelliform, small (holotype 1.6 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, about 0.75 mm tall), with blunt apex extending to, or just below, aperture plane. Polygonal texture over entire surface of internal mould. |