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Coolinia sulcata
Taxonomy
Coolinia sulcata was named by Boucot et al. (1988). Its type specimen is USNM 409887 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM loc. 12878, Red Amphitheatre, Funeral Mountains, which is in a Wenlock deep subtidal shelf dolomite in the Hidden Valley Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Coolinia sulcata Boucot et al. pp. 111 - 112 figs. Pl. 2, figs. 44-45; Pl. 3, figs. 1-5 |
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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.
†Coolinia sulcata Boucot et al. 1988
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. J. Boucot et al. 1988 | Plano-convex to slightly resupinate large Coolinia with a posteriorly restricted, shallow dorsal sulcus, lacking pseudodeltidium. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy 2009, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||