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Knightinella humerosa
Taxonomy
Pleurotomaria humerosa was named by Meek and Hayden (1858). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is East for of Grasshopper Creek (= Delaware River) at Osawkee village, which is in a Virgilian carbonate limestone/shale in the Foraker Limestone Formation of Kansas.
It was recombined as Hypselentoma humerosa by Weller (1929); it was recombined as Amaurotoma humerosa by Yochelson and Saunders (1967) and Kues and Batten (2001); it was recombined as Amaurotoma (Knightinella) humerosa by Licharev (1975); it was recombined as Knightinella humerosa by Wagner (2023).
It was recombined as Hypselentoma humerosa by Weller (1929); it was recombined as Amaurotoma humerosa by Yochelson and Saunders (1967) and Kues and Batten (2001); it was recombined as Amaurotoma (Knightinella) humerosa by Licharev (1975); it was recombined as Knightinella humerosa by Wagner (2023).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1858 | Pleurotomaria humerosa Meek and Hayden p. 264 |
| 1858 | Pleurotomaria subturbinata Meek and Hayden p. 264 |
| 1864 | Pleurotomaria subturbinata Meek and Hayden p. 47 figs. pl. 1 f. 13 |
| 1929 | Hypselentoma humerosa Weller p. 10 |
| 1967 | Amaurotoma humerosa Yochelson and Saunders p. 26 |
| 1975 | Amaurotoma (Knightinella) humerosa Licharev p. 46 |
| 2001 | Amaurotoma humerosa Kues and Batten p. 33 figs. f. 8.1-8.4 |
| 2023 | Knightinella humerosa Wagner p. S5953 |
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†Knightinella humerosa Meek and Hayden 1858
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Invalid names: Knightinella subturbinata Meek and Hayden 1858 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. B. Meek and F.V. Hayden 1858 (Pleurotomaria subturbinata) | Shell small, comparatively thick, obliquely conical; spire moderately elevated, rather pointed at the apex. Volatlonl six to six and a half, con~elt, and angular in the middle, obliquely concave above, and having around
the middle of the last, just below the angle, a rather narrow, shallow, revolving BnlCUl. Umbilical region a little depreBsed, and perforated by a very small pit; aperture Bnborbioular. Burface ornamented by small revolving lines (only preserved on tbe under and outer sideB of the body whorl, in our specimen, whioh is aomewhat wom and BhowB no linea of growth). Angle on the middle of the whorlB apparently double, or composed of two parallel linea. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class | |||||
| References: Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Bandel et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Desmoinesian to the top of the Virgilian or 312.80000 to 298.90000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Kashirian - Myachkovian | USA (New Mexico) | Amaurotoma humerosa (46548) | |
| Desmoinesian | USA (New Mexico) | Amaurotoma humerosa (46536) | |
| Virgilian | USA (Kansas) | Pleurotomaria humerosa, Pleurotomaria subturbinata (type locality: 156790) |