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Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) richardsoni
Taxonomy
Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) richardsoni was named by Jin and Copper (2000). Its type specimen is GSC 59195 and is a 3D body fossil. 
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author | 
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| 2000 | Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) richardsoni Jin and Copper pp. 50 - 51 figs. Pl. 17, figs. 12-19; Pl. 18, figs. 1-3; Text-fig. 35 | 
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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.
 †Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) richardsoni Jin and Copper 2000
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Jin and P. Copper 2000 | Large to very large, semicircular to subpentagonal, weakly biconvex shells of Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) with chisel-like posterior. Shell surface smooth or irregular, rarely with faint criss-cross ribbing; hingeline and ventral interarea straight, nearly as wide as shell width. | 
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||