Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Alternative combinations: Minycardita capitanensis, Oxyprora capitanensis
Full reference: M. J. Vendrasco, R. D. Hoare, and G. L. Bell, Jr. 2010. The youngest rostroconch mollusc from North America, Minycardita capitanensis n. sp. Zootaxa 2603:61-64
Belongs to Hoarepora according to A. V. Mazaev 2023
See also Mazaev 2015 and Vendrasco et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Hoarepora missouriensis, Hoarepora parrishi, Hoarepora prattenanum, Hoarepora tschernyschewi, Hoarepora uralica, Oxyprora sayrei, Oxyprora carinatum, Oxyprora digitatum, Oxyprora halmerjus, Oxyprora oklahomaense, Oxyprora mesialis, Oxyprora equilaterale
Type specimen: GUMO 15309, a shell. Its type locality is GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills, which is in a Capitanian slope rudstone/packstone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.
Distribution: found only at GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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