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Meekella beipeiensis
Taxonomy
Meekella beipeiensis was named by Chen (2005). Its type specimen is NMV P309624 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Daijiagou Section, Longtan Member 4, Hechuan County, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in the Longtan Formation of China.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Meekella beipeiensis Chen p. 350 fig. 7D,E,9 |
| 2007 | Meekella beipeiensis Shen and Shi p. 18 figs. Pl 4, figs 18-25; pl 5, figs 1-14; pl 26, fig 8 |
| 2015 | Meekella beipeiensis Ghaderi et al. figs. Pl 2, figs 1-4, 8-11 |
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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.
†Meekella beipeiensis Chen 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 9 | 31.3 | 23.0 | 39.8 | 30.8 | 5.60 |
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| Source: c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.90000 to 252.17000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wuchiapingian | Iran | Meekella beipeiensis (175873 175886 175887) | |
| Wuchiapingian | China (Sichuan) | Meekella beipeiensis, Meekella kueichowensis (type locality: 56618) | |
| Changhsingian | China (Chongqing) | Meekella beipeiensis (138386 138387 138388 138454 138455) |