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Platymena plana
Taxonomy
Platymena plana was named by Cooper (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 117759b and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 100 yards south of the Negro Cemetery, ½ mile northeast of Friendsville, Concord, which is in a Chazyan carbonate limestone in the Arline Formation of Tennessee. It is the type species of Platymena.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Platymena plana Cooper |
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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.
†Platymena plana Cooper 1956
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||