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Meekospira knighti

Gastropoda - Meekospiridae

Taxonomy
Meekospira knighti was named by Winters (1963). Its type specimen is AMNH 28017/3:1, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cibecue Road, Locality 4, which is in a Kungurian shallow subtidal limestone in the Supai Formation of Arizona.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. percuta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Meekospira knighti Winters p. 48 figs. Pl 5, fig 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
familyMeekospiridae
genusMeekospira
speciesknighti

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.

†Meekospira knighti Winters 1963
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available