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Taxonomy
Gouldia (Paragouldia) platycostata was named by Miller (1985). Its type specimen is ANBSP 62892, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Section SG1, Smith Gut - unit A [Smith Gut Mbr, Flanner Beach Fm], which is in a Pleistocene coastal sandstone in the Flanner Beach Formation of North Carolina. It is the type species of Paragouldia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1985 | Gouldia (Paragouldia) platycostata Miller III p. 123 figs. fig. 2 |
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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.
†Gouldia (Paragouldia) platycostata Miller III 1985
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | USA (North Carolina) | Gouldia platycostata (type locality: 91489) |