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Fraipontia bella
Taxonomy
Conocardium bellum was named by Cooper and Cloud (1938). Its type specimen is USNM 95192a, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Salt Spring Hollow, about two miles north of the hollow south of Kritesville, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Little Cedar Formation of Illinois.
It was recombined as Hippocardia bella by Pojeta and Runnegar (1976), Hoare (1989); it was recombined as Fraipontia bella by Wagner (2023).
It was recombined as Hippocardia bella by Pojeta and Runnegar (1976), Hoare (1989); it was recombined as Fraipontia bella by Wagner (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1938 | Conocardium bellum Cooper and Cloud p. 452 figs. pl. 55 f. 7=8, 10-12 |
| 1976 | Hippocardia bella Pojeta and Runnegar |
| 1989 | Hippocardia bella Hoare p. 844 |
| 2023 | Fraipontia bella Wagner p. S3082 |
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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.
†Fraipontia bella Cooper and Cloud 1938
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Reference: Kiessling 2004 | |||||