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Meekospira minuta

Gastropoda - Meekospiridae

Taxonomy
Meekospira minuta was named by Weller (1916). It is not extant. Its type locality is Bed No. 8, Fountain Creek, 2 miles southwest of Waterloo, which is in a Chesterian carbonate limestone in the Ste. Genevieve Formation of Illinois.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Meekospira minuta Weller
1974Meekospira minuta Thein and Nitecki pp. 213 - 216 figs. f. 96
1994Meekospira minuta Jeffery et al. p. 77 fig. 10.12–10.16
2023Meekospira minuta Wagner p. 6172

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

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 minuta Weller 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available