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Metopaster elegans
Taxonomy
Metopaster elegans was named by Gale (1987). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Natural History Museum, London, holotype BNHM E 54274, paratypes BNHM E 54273, E.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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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.
†Metopaster elegans Gale 1987
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Diagnosis
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| A. S. Gale 1987 | A Metopaster in which the outer face of all marginals is evenly covered with closely spaced fine granule pits. Ultimate superomarginal long and narrow, decreases in height to rounded distal termination. Median marginals possess slanted distal faces. |
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Collections
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