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Floweria transversalis
Taxonomy
Floweria transversalis was named by Cooper and Dutro (1982). Its type specimen is USNM 200873, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 362a. On Iowa Highway 220, 0.3 mile west of Middle Amana, which is in a Frasnian marine shale in the Independence Shale Formation of Iowa.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1982 | Floweria transversalis Cooper and Dutro p. 55 figs. pl. 10 f. 41-46 |
| 2005 | Floweria transversalis Stigall Rode pp. 162, Table 4 |
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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.
†Floweria transversalis Cooper and Dutro 1982
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. A. Cooper and J. T. Dutro 1982 | Concavo-convex Floweria having a large attachment surface, length two-thirds the width, anterior commissure uniplicate. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||