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Metopaster teilhardi
Taxonomy
Metopaster teilhardi was named by de Loriol (1909). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Geological Museum, Cairo, n°786.
It was recombined as Spenceria teilhardi by Spencer and Wright (1966).
It was recombined as Spenceria teilhardi by Spencer and Wright (1966).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1909 | Metopaster teilhardi de Loriol p. 175 figs. pl. XI, fig. 1 |
| 1913 | Metopaster teilhardi Spencer p. 151 |
| 1914 | Metopaster teilhardi Fourtau p. 100 |
| 1921 | Metopaster teilhardi Fourtau p. 100 |
| 1943 | Metopaster teilhardi Brünnich-Nielsen p. 16 |
| 1966 | Spenceria teilhardi Spencer and Wright p. U57 |
| 2010 | Metopaster teilhardi Villier |
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†Metopaster teilhardi de Loriol 1909
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. Villier 2010 | Disk slightly convex. Abactinal plates polygonal to rounded. Raised central area surrounded by dense tiny granule-pits. Arms relatively long. Interbrachial arc curved. Superomarginal plates convex, wider than long. Abradial side vertical. Enlarged ultimate superomarginal plates, triangular with convex external face, in contact with few inferomarginal plates. Two pairs of superomarginal plates per half-arc. Interbrachial arc with a single narrow triangular plate. Ornament of external face with dense tiny granule-pits. Inferomarginal plates lower and less convex than superomarginals. Adambulacral plates small. |
Measurements
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| References: Blake 1990, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||