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Bernaya (Protocypraea) mississippiensis
Taxonomy
Bernaya (Protocypraea) mississippiensis was named by Groves (1990) [= Bernaya (s.l.) new species: Dockery 1988:19, fig. 3.]. Its type specimen is USNM 446797, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is MGS 129, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine sandstone in the Coffee Sand Formation of Mississippi.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1990 | Bernaya (Protocypraea) mississippiensis Groves pp. 279 - 281 figs. 27, 28 |
2011 | Bernaya (Protocypraea) mississippiensis Groves et al. p. 178 |
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†Bernaya (Protocypraea) mississippiensis Groves 1990
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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L. T. Groves 1990 | Pyriform Protocypraea, anterior and posterior basal terminal ridges prominent, fossula, concave, smooth. |