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Trawdenia carricki

Taxonomy
Mesopoma carricki was named by Coates (1993). Its type specimen is GLAHM V8289, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bearsden locality, which is in a Pendleian marine shale in the Manse Burn Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Trawdenia carricki by Coates and Tietjen (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Mesopoma carricki Coates pp. 126-129 figs. Plate 1, figs 1-2; text-figs 1-3
2018Trawdenia carricki Coates and Tietjen

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
—Actinopterygii()
genusTrawdenia
speciescarricki()

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.

†Trawdenia carricki Coates 1993
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Pendleian or 330.90000 to 327.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pendleian330.9 - 327.0United Kingdom (Scotland) Mesopoma carricki (225477)