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Metalegoceras striatum
Taxonomy
Metalegoceras striatum was named by Teichert (1942). Its type specimen is UWA 20508, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Nura Nura Ridge, which is in a Sakmarian coastal siliciclastic in the Poole Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Parametalegoceras striatum by Boiko et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Parametalegoceras striatum by Boiko et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1942 | Metalegoceras striatum Teichert p. 230 figs. Pl 35, fig 1 |
| 1961 | Metalegoceras striatum Glenister and Furnish p. 706 figs. Pl 79, figs 8-11; text-fig 8C |
| 2002 | Metalegoceras striatum Leonova |
| 2008 | Parametalegoceras striatum Boiko et al. p. 588 |
| 2009 | Metalegoceras striatum Furnish et al. p. 176 |
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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.
†Metalegoceras striatum Teichert 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 5.00 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 16.5 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 7.50 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||