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Mesoleptostrophia (Mesoleptostrophia) ostrina
Taxonomy
Leptostrophia (Leptostrophia) ostrina was named by Cocks (1967). Its type specimen is OUM Cl4014 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hughley, which is in a Telychian marine shale in the Purple Shale Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Palaeoleptostrophia ostrina by Rong and Cocks (1994); it was recombined as Mesoleptostrophia (Mesoleptostrophia) ostrina by Cocks (2008).
It was recombined as Palaeoleptostrophia ostrina by Rong and Cocks (1994); it was recombined as Mesoleptostrophia (Mesoleptostrophia) ostrina by Cocks (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1967 | Leptostrophia (Leptostrophia) ostrina Cocks pp. 252 - 253 figs. Plate 37, figs. 12-14; Plate 38, fig. I |
| 1994 | Palaeoleptostrophia ostrina Rong and Cocks p. 684 |
| 2008 | Mesoleptostrophia (Mesoleptostrophia) ostrina Cocks p. 70 |
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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.
†Mesoleptostrophia (Mesoleptostrophia) ostrina Cocks 1967
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. R. M. Cocks 1967 | Early form of Leptostrophia without dental plates but with denticular plates,
allometric growth, and differentiated ornament. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||