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Acanthina obesa
Taxonomy
Acanthina obesa was named by DeVries (2003) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene; Peru-Chile.]. Its type specimen is OSU 37361, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2003 | Acanthina obesa DeVries p. 339 figs. figs. 37-52 |
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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.
†Acanthina obesa DeVries 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 15.97000 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | Chile (Coquimbo) | Acanthina obesa (221642) | |
| Middle Miocene | Peru | Acanthina obesa (76597) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Peru | Acanthina obesa (80419 80499 80500 80510) | |
| Messinian | Peru | Acanthina obesa (13079) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Peru | Acanthina obesa (80484 80498 89183 89184) |