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Metalegoceras platyventrum
Taxonomy
Metalegoceras platyventrum was named by Zhao and Zheng (1977). Its type specimen is NIGP 44602, 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 platyventrum by Leonova (2002), Boiko et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Pseudometalegoceras platyventrum 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 platyventrum Zhao and Zheng p. 243 figs. Pl 5, figs 5,6; text-fig 14c |
| 2002 | Pseudometalegoceras platyventrum Leonova |
| 2008 | Pseudometalegoceras platyventrum Boiko et al. p. 594 figs. Pl 1, fig 3 |
| 2009 | Metalegoceras platyventrum 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 platyventrum Zhao and Zheng 1977
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 22.4 | |||||
| shell diameter | 1 | 59.5 | |||||
| shell inflation | 1 | 24.3 |
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||