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Kittliconcha cassiana
Taxonomy
Zygopleura (Kittliconcha) cassiana was named by Bonarelli (1927) [= 1894 Loxonema walmstedti (Klipstein, 1843) – Kittl: 169, pl. 8, fig. 5.]. Its type specimen is Geologische Bundesanstalt Unnumbered, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Prati di Stuores, which is in a Carnian deep subtidal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the San Cassiano Formation of Italy. It is the type species of Kittliconcha.
It was recombined as Kittliconcha cassiana by Nützel (2010).
It was recombined as Kittliconcha cassiana by Nützel (2010).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Kittliconcha cassiana Bonarelli 1927
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Nützel 2010 | Shell high-spired; about 8.5 whorls, 18.4 mm high, 7.4 mm wide; apical angle 26°; whorls convex, ornamented with 12 to 14 axial ribs per whorl; ribs round, orthocline to slightly opisthocyrt, little narrower than space between ribs; ribs do not continue onto base; base smooth, convex, without ledge when joining whorl face; suture incised; last whorl with pronounced deep, healed shell fracture; shell after fracture without regular ribs, but with one irregular varix and a varix-like aperture. |