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Catazyga hicksi

Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae

Taxonomy
Zygospira hicksi was named by Reed (1905) [Zygospira Hicksi]. Its type specimen is SM A30862, a valve (dorsal internal mould), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cuckoo Grove Lane, which is in a Rawtheyan marine mudstone in the Slade and Redhill Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Catazyga hicksi by Copper (1977), Hiller (1980), Cocks (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Zygospira hicksi Reed p. 452 figs. pl. 23, figs 17-19
1977Catazyga hicksi Copper p. 312 figs. pl. 38, figs 20, 21
1980Catazyga hicksi Hiller p. 203 figs. 367-369
2014Catazyga hicksi Cocks p. 91 figs. 26D-M

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classRhynchonellataWilliams et al. 1996
orderAtrypidaRzhonsnitskaya 1960
suborderAnazygidinaCopper 1996
superfamilyAnazygoideaDavidson 1883
familyAnazygidaeDavidson 1883
subfamilyCatazyginaeCopper 1977
genusCatazygaHall and Clarke 1893
specieshicksi()

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.

†Catazyga hicksi Reed 1905
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Diagnosis
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