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Leiospongia verrucosa
Taxonomy
Achilleum verrucosum was named by Münster (1841). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy. It is the type species of Leiospongia.
It was recombined as Leiofungia verrucosa by Laube (1865); it was recombined as Leiospongia verrucosa by Engeser and Taylor (1989).
It was recombined as Leiofungia verrucosa by Laube (1865); it was recombined as Leiospongia verrucosa by Engeser and Taylor (1989).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1841 | Achilleum verrucosum Münster p. 25 figs. Pl 1, fig 1 |
| 1865 | Leiofungia verrucosa Laube p. 23 figs. Pl 2, fig 13 |
| 1989 | Leiospongia verrucosa Engeser and Taylor p. 42 |
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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.
†Leiospongia verrucosa Münster 1841
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 14.1 |
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Kiessling 2004 | |||||