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Kutanjia ngalbala
Taxonomy
Kutanjia ngalbala was named by Kruse (1991). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is NTGS 4631. AMG 608985 KILGOUR, east bank of McArthur River, which is in an Ordian carbonate limestone in the Top Springs Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Kutanjia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1991 | Kutanjia ngalbala Kruse p. 184 figs. 10A-J |
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†Kutanjia ngalbala Kruse 1991
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. D. Kruse 1991 | Shell exterior with firie radial ornament; interior with discrete discontinuous ridgelike comarginal thickenings, distally flexed on concave side.
Shell up to 3.2 mm in length, slightly laterally compressed; aperture planar, subcircular to elliptical. Exterior with radial ornament of closely and regularly spaced fine grooves. Interior with prominent discrete comarginal ridgelike thickenings, each continuous around entire circumference of shell . Thickenings generally planar except for gentle distal flexure on concave side, incipient in apical region. |
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Hendy 2009 | |||||