NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America 

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Caudites Coryell and Fields, 1937.

Morphologic Description: Carapace small, elongate, thick-shelled, more compressed than Hemicythere, anterior end rounded, with thickened rim, posterior attenuated and posteroventral corner produced; surface with one or more longitudinal ribs and commonly a transverse rib extending downward from posterocardinal angle. [Caudites medialis Coryell and Fields, 1937] (Treatise, Q302, fig. 228:1).

Species:

• C. aff. C. medialis Coryell and Fields, 1937.
• C. cf. C. rectangularis (Brady, 1869).
• C. nipeensis Bold, 1946.

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