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Metalegoceras spirale
Taxonomy
Metalegoceras spirale was named by Zhao and Zheng (1977). Its type specimen is NIGP 44603, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Caijiawan, Pengjia Mb, Shangrao County, which is in a Wordian marine siliciclastic in the Hutang Formation of China.
It was recombined as Pseudometalegoceras spirale by Leonova (2002), Boiko et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Pseudometalegoceras spirale by Leonova (2002), Boiko et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Metalegoceras spirale Zhao and Zheng p. 243 figs. Pl 5, figs 1,2; text-fig 14d |
| 2002 | Pseudometalegoceras spirale Leonova |
| 2008 | Pseudometalegoceras spirale Boiko et al. p. 594 figs. Pl 1, fig 4 |
| 2009 | Metalegoceras spirale 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 spirale Zhao and Zheng 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | |||||
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| shell height | 1 | 28.8 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 62.9 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 18.4 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||