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Acanthocrania alta

Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae

Taxonomy
Acanthocrania alta was named by Cooper and Grant (1974). Its type specimen is USNM 152571, a valve, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM720g, Hess Ranch Horst, Glass Mountains, which is in an Artinskian slope limestone in the Skinner Ranch Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. erecta, A. granulosa, A. laevis, A. oklahomensis, A. psammophora, A. spinosa, A. subquadrata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Acanthocrania alta Cooper and Grant p. 242 figs. Pl 27, figs 2-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
RankNameAuthor
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
subphylumCraniiformeaPopov et al. 1993
classCraniata
orderCraniidaWaagen 1885
superfamilyCranioidea(Menke 1828)
familyCraniidaeMenke 1828
genusAcanthocraniaWilliams 1943
speciesalta

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.

†Acanthocrania alta Cooper and Grant 1974
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available