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Aturia kerniana
Taxonomy
Aturia kerniana was named by Anderson and Hanna (1925). Its type specimen is CAS 881, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS 711, Grapevine Canyon, which is in a Lutetian marine sandstone in the Tejon Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Aturia kerniana Anderson and Hanna p. 49 figs. Pl 6, fig 8; text-figs 1,2 |
| 1931 | Aturia kerniana Schenck p. 456 figs. pl. 66, fig. 3; test figs. 4-14, 28 |
| 1947 | Aturia kerniana Miller p. 98 figs. pl. 85, figs. 7,8; pl. 88, fig. 4; pl. 89, figs. 3, 4 |
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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.
†Aturia kerniana Anderson and Hanna 1925
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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 | 23.1 | 14.0 | 38.0 | 26.0 | 17.0 | |
| shell diameter | 2 | 41.6 | 24.0 | 72.0 | 48.0 | 33.9 | |
| shell inflation | 2 | 2.24 | 2.00 | 2.50 | 2.25 | 0.354 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||