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Moschoglossis decorata
Taxonomy
Moschoglossis decorata was named by Goldring (1958). Its type specimen is GS 86982, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bed marked by Chonetes cf. buchiana, right bank, Avon Gorge, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Palate Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Moschoglossis.
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1958 | Moschoglossis decorata Goldring pp. 236 - 236 figs. Plate 43, figs. 1-7 |
| 1985 | Moschoglossis decorata Hahn et al. |
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†Moschoglossis decorata Goldring 1958
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†Moschoglossis decorata brevicauda Goldring 1958
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Goldring 1958 | Glabella cylindrical and moderately inflated. Occipital ring an even band, scarcely narrower at the axial furrows than medianly. No branch furrow. Large eyes and narrow palpebral lobes. High narrow anterior border. Anterior branch of facial suture rather strongly diverging and j8 strongly rounded. Anterior fixed cheek markedly triangular, y opposite glabellar furrow 3p and close to axial furrow. € slightly posterior to half length of glabellar lobe Ip. Posterior branch strongly diverging. Free cheeks with small genal spine. Pygidium with thirteen rings and nine ribs. Weak or absent border furrow. Ring and pleural furrows weak, and anterior and posterior portions of ribs equally developed. Ornament on glabella of fine transverse scale-like ridges with steep posterior edges : much finer on occipital ring and pygidium. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Whittington et al. 1997, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||
Age range: Hastarian or 358.90000 to 353.80000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hastarian | France | Moschoglossis brevicauda (38857) | |
| Hastarian | Belgium | Moschoglossis decorata (42589) | |
| Hastarian | United Kingdom (England) | Moschoglossis decorata (type locality: 229266) | |
| Hastarian | Belgium (Namur) | Moschoglossis decorata (229672) |