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Taxonomy
Eoplaneta desforesti was named by Piton and Théobald (1937). Its type specimen is Coll. Des Forest 2, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Des Forest collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France. It is the type species of Eoplaneta.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Eoplaneta desforesti Piton and Théobald p. 78 fig. 3 |
| 1940 | Eoplaneta desforesti Piton p. 126 figs. 7; Pl XVIII fig 14 |
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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.
†Eoplaneta desforesti Piton and Théobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||