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Doleroides tennesseensis
Taxonomy
Doleroides tennesseensis was named by Cooper (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 117034a, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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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.
†Doleroides tennesseensis Cooper 1956
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Diagnosis
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A. Williams 1962 | Subquadrate and subequally biconvex Doleroides ornamented by fine costellae spaced at about 4 per millimetre; brachial valve with a postero-median sulcus which may persist anteriorly to be impressed on a broad, fiat fold; pedicle valve broadly sulcate anteriorly, commonly with a low umbonal fold encroaching anteriorly on the sulcus; ventral muscle-scar subpentagonal in outline, just over onethird as long as the pedicle valve and about seven-eighths as wide as long, contained posteriorly and laterally by divergent dental lamellae and subparallel ridges respectively, adductor field narrow, median, and defined by a pair of fine parallel ridges. Cardinal process fine, blade-like; brachiophore supporting plates short, slightly convergent, receding, notothyrial platform poorly developed, median ridge absent. |