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Prosimnia naviculae
Taxonomy
Transovula (Oxycypraea) naviculae was named by Palmer (1937). Its type specimen is PRI 2959, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Prosimnia naviculae by Garvie (1996).
It was recombined as Prosimnia naviculae by Garvie (1996).
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.
†Prosimnia naviculae Palmer 1937
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| K. V. Palmer 1937 | Shell elongate, both ends attenuate and curved upwards giving the appearance of a skiff ; surface of the shell smooth, a few, obscure, revolving lines occur at each end ; the lines covered mostly by the heavy, marginal callus ; outer lip with 25, elongate teeth which extend the full width of the outer lip; inner lip with 25 teeth of about equal length of those of the outer lip ; interior of the anterior region of the whorl, back of the .columella protrudes beyond the inner lip. |
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||