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Taxonomy
Conophillipsia speciosa was named by Engel and Morris (1984). Its type specimen is AMF 80538, a cephalon/head (internal mould of cranidium, partial external mould of glabella and anterior border), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is NU L894. Branch Creek Road, northwest of Gloucester, which is in a Visean marine sandstone in the Conger Formation of Australia.
It was recombined as Monodechenella speciosa by Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
It was recombined as Monodechenella speciosa by Vanderlaan and Ebach (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1984 | Conophillipsia speciosa Engel and Morris p. 41–47 fig. 12–13 |
| 2015 | Monodechenella speciosa Vanderlaan and Ebach p. 20 |
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†Monodechenella speciosa Engel and Morris 1984
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. A. Vanderlaan and M. C. Ebach 2015 | Cranidium flat, coarsely punctate with strong nodular ornament; glabellar length equal to width, anterior margin does not touch anterior border. Pygidial axis triangular in section, created by median node down axis, flanked by smaller nodes; distinct lateral lobes; 12–15 axial rings, 11–13 pleural ribs. |
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| References: Hendy 2009, Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||