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Leda elliptica
Taxonomy
Nucula elliptica was named by Goldfuss (1837).
It was recombined as Leda elliptica by Laube (1865) and Awad (1945); it was recombined as Ctenodonta elliptica by Frech (1912); it was recombined as Palaeoneilo elliptica by Bittner (1895), Broili (1904), Waagen (1907), Gu et al. (1976), Xu (1978), Yang et al. (1979), Sha (1995), Damborenea (2012) and Paredes et al. (2013).
It was recombined as Leda elliptica by Laube (1865) and Awad (1945); it was recombined as Ctenodonta elliptica by Frech (1912); it was recombined as Palaeoneilo elliptica by Bittner (1895), Broili (1904), Waagen (1907), Gu et al. (1976), Xu (1978), Yang et al. (1979), Sha (1995), Damborenea (2012) and Paredes et al. (2013).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1837 | Nucula elliptica Goldfuss p. 153 figs. Pl 124, fig 16 |
| 1841 | Nucula elliptica Münster p. 83 figs. Pl 8, fig 8 |
| 1843 | Nucula tenuis Klipstein p. 263 figs. Pl 17, fig 17 |
| 1865 | Leda elliptica Laube p. 67 figs. Pl 19, fig 6 |
| 1895 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Bittner |
| 1904 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Broili |
| 1907 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Waagen |
| 1912 | Ctenodonta elliptica Frech |
| 1945 | Leda elliptica Awad |
| 1976 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Gu et al. p. 22 figs. Pl 19, figs 13,14 |
| 1978 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Xu p. 316 figs. Pl 104, figs 14,15 |
| 1979 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Yang et al. p. 468 figs. Pl 2, figs 2-4 |
| 1985 | Malletia pseudopraecursor Kurushin p. 42 figs. Pl 5, figs 5-8 |
| 1995 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Sha p. 86 figs. Pl 24, figs 1-3 |
| 1996 | Malletia pseudopraecursor Dagis et al. p. 24 figs. Pl 9, fig 1; pl 16, fig 1 |
| 2012 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Damborenea p. 321 figs. Pl 1, figs 2a-b |
| 2013 | Palaeoneilo elliptica Paredes et al. figs. Pl 1, fig 1 |
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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.
†Leda elliptica Goldfuss 1837
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Invalid names: Nucula tenuis Klipstein 1843 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Rhuddanian to the top of the Oxfordian or 443.40000 to 157.30000 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Rhuddanian | Canada (Ontario) | Ctenodonta elliptica (173219 173224) | |
| Aeronian | USA (New York) | Ctenodonta elliptica (82543) | |
| Sheinwoodian | USA (New York) | Ctenodonta elliptica (82597) | |
| Anisian | Egypt (Shamal Sina) | Leda elliptica (206058) | |
| Anisian | Germany (Hessen) | Nucula elliptica (38545 44358) | |
| Illyrian | Germany | Nucula elliptica (90045) | |
| Ladinian | Germany | Ctenodonta elliptica (149470 203243) | |
| Julian | Italy | Nucula elliptica (137429) | |
| Oxfordian | United Kingdom (England) | Nucula elliptica (100669) |