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Metopaster medius
Taxonomy
Metopaster medius was named by Breton and Néraudeau (2008). Its type specimen is Holotype MHNH 9144 and is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2008 | Metopaster medius Breton and Néraudeau pp. 330-331 figs. figs. 3.1, 4.5 |
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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.
†Metopaster medius Breton and Néraudeau 2008
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Breton and D. Néraudeau 2008 | Distalmost superomarginal longer than wide, with a rectangular trapezoidal profile in abactinal view, articulated with a single enlarged penultimate and a small distalmost inferomarginal plates. External face with a well-defined central area and ornament of sparsely distributed granule-pits. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available