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Leptograptus ascendens

Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae

Taxonomy
Leptograptus ascendens was named by Elles and Wood (1903). Its type specimen is BGS GSE 5501, 5502 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hawkwood Burn, near Abington Water, which is in a Caradoc/Harnagian marine shale in the Glenkiln Shale Formation of the United Kingdom.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
L. annectans, L. demissus, L. flaccidus, L. flaccidus, L. flaccidus, L. flaccidus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1903Leptograptus ascendens Elles and Wood p. 117 figs. pl. 16, figs 6a,b
1997Leptograptus ascendens Strachan p. 41

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumHemichordataBateson 1885
classPterobranchiaLankester 1877
RankNameAuthor
subclassGraptolithina(Bronn 1849)
orderGraptoloideaLapworth 1875
suborderAxonophoraFrech 1897
infraorderDiplograptina(Lapworth 1880)
familyDicranograptidaeLapworth 1873
genusLeptograptus(Hopkinson 1871)
speciesascendensElles and Wood 1903

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.

†Leptograptus ascendens Elles and Wood 1903
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Diagnosis
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