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Japonites welteri
Taxonomy
Japonites welteri was named by Bucher (1989). Its type specimen is USNM 438369, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coyote Canyon HB 235, northern Humboldt Range, which is in an Aegean marine horizon in the Prida Formation of Nevada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1989 | Japonites welteri Bucher p. 978 figs. Pl 1, fig 11; pl 6, figs 4-6; text-fig 20 |
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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.
†Japonites welteri Bucher 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 3 | 13.2 | - | - | 13.2 | - | |
| shell diameter | 3 | 41.0 | 25.2 | 66.0 | 41.3 | 20.6 | |
| shell inflation | 3 | 33.0 | - | - | 33.0 | - |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||