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Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum
Taxonomy
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum was named by Yochelson (1960). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM706, Hess Canyon, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian marine limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1960 | Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum Yochelson pp. 266 – 267 figs. pl. 50 f. 1-9, 11-12 |
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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.
†Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum Yochelson 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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shell height | 12 | 6.54 | 4.50 | 10.0 | 6.30 | 1.86 |
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References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 |
Collections (6 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Bellerophon kingorum (43517) | |
Roadian | USA (Texas) | Bellerophon kingorum (type locality: 43548 43551 43563) | |
Wordian | Tunisia (Madanin) | Bellerophon crassus (42091) | |
Wordian | USA (Texas) | Bellerophon kingorum (43550) |