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Levizygopleura inornata

Gastropoda - Pseudozygopleuridae

Taxonomy
Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata was named by Knight (1930) [Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata Knight 1930]. Its type specimen is YPM 12976, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is SL-1. Headwaters of Feefee Creek, north of Olive St. & west of Lindberg Blvd., 1.5 km northwest of Stratmann (Olivette), which is in a Moscovian offshore shale in the Appanoose Formation of Missouri.

It was synonymized subjectively with Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) semicostata by Nützel (1998); it was synonymized subjectively with Pseudozygopleura semicostata by Kues and Batten (2001); it was recombined as Levizygopleura inornata by Bandel (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata Knight p. 51 figs. pl. 2 f. 19
1985Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata Hoare and Sturgeon pp. 68 - 69 figs. f. 1d; fa-b; table 2
1997Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) inornata Kulas and Batten pp. 52 - 54 figs. pl. 4 f. 9A-B
2002Levizygopleura inornata Bandel p. 125 figs. 85 - 87

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyZygopleuroidea
familyPseudozygopleuridae()
genusLevizygopleura
speciesinornata()

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.

Levizygopleura inornata Knight 1930
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height110.8

Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-02-29 11:40:59
Modified: 2010-02-11 01:35:02
Source: c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Moscovian to the top of the Wuchiapingian or 315.20000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Atokan318.6 - 312.8USA (Kentucky) Pseudozygopleura n. sp. 2 (183267)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Missouri) Pseudozygopleura inornata (type locality: 69773)
Desmoinesian312.8 - 306.0USA (Ohio) Pseudozygopleura inornata (72004) Pseudozygopleura n. sp. 2 (71963 72006 79324 93081 183207 183260)
Virgilian303.7 - 298.9USA (West Virginia) Pseudozygopleura n. sp. 2 (79391)
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14USA (Wyoming) Pseudozygopleura inornata (82181)