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Doswellia kaltenbachi
Taxonomy
Doswellia kaltenbachi was named by Weems (1980). Its type specimen is USNM 244214, a skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Doswell sewer plant, bed 3 (USNM), which is in a Carnian lacustrine - small siltstone in the Falling Creek Formation of Virginia. It is the type species of Doswellia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1980 | Doswellia kaltenbachi Weems p. 10 figs. 7-25, Pl. 1-11 |
| 1995 | Doswellia kaltenbachi Long and Murry |
| 2009 | Doswellia kaltenbachi Dilkes and Sues p. 59 |
| 2012 | Doswellia kaltenbachi Heckert et al. pp. 1335-1336 |
| 2013 | Doswellia kaltenbachi Sues et al. |
| 2016 | Doswellia kaltenbachi Ezcurra |
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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.
†Doswellia kaltenbachi Weems 1980
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. B. Heckert et al. 2012 | Species of Doswellia characterized by the absence of distinct knobs or protuberances on the osteoderms; also lacks ventral keels on the cervical centra. It may also be smaller and have a lower tooth count than the other species of Doswellia, D. sixmilensis, described below. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||