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Loxoplocus sedgwicki

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae

Taxonomy
Lophospira sedgwicki was named by Donald (1906). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 6. Ladywell Wood of Mulloch Hill, which is in a Rhuddanian carbonate limestone in the Mulloch Hill Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Loxoplocus sedgwicki by Wagner (1999), Wagner (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Lophospira sedgwicki Donald p. 562 figs. pl. 43 f. 11-12
1939Lophospira trilineata Pitcher p. 89 figs. pl. 1 f. 11
1977Lophospira sedgwicki Peel p. 24 figs. pl. 2 f. 23
1999Loxoplocus sedgwicki Wagner p. 30
2023Loxoplocus sedgwicki Wagner p. S1772

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyTrochonematoidea()
familyLophospiridae
genusLoxoplocus
speciessedgwicki()

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.

†Loxoplocus sedgwicki Donald 1906
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Invalid names: Loxoplocus trilineata Pitcher 1939 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available