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Meekospira symmetrica
Taxonomy
Macrocheilus symmetricus was named by King (1844). Its type specimen is U.C.G. D819B, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Eulima symmetrica by Howse (1848) and Howse (1857); it was recombined as Turbonilla symmetrica by Geinitz (1861); it was recombined as Soleniscus symmetricus by Reed (1944); it was recombined as Macrochilina symmetrica by Pattison (1967); it was recombined as Meekospira symmetrica by Pattison (1977), Hollingworth and Barker (1991), Mazaev (2015) and Mazaev (2018).
It was recombined as Eulima symmetrica by Howse (1848) and Howse (1857); it was recombined as Turbonilla symmetrica by Geinitz (1861); it was recombined as Soleniscus symmetricus by Reed (1944); it was recombined as Macrochilina symmetrica by Pattison (1967); it was recombined as Meekospira symmetrica by Pattison (1977), Hollingworth and Barker (1991), Mazaev (2015) and Mazaev (2018).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1844 | Macrocheilus symmetricus King p. 35 figs. pl. 16 f. 32-33 |
1848 | Eulima symmetrica Howse p. 241 |
1850 | Macrocheilus symmetricus King p. 211 figs. pl. 16 f. 32-33 |
1857 | Eulima symmetrica Howse p. 465 |
1861 | Turbonilla symmetrica Geinitz p. 46 fig. IIIa,b |
1944 | Soleniscus symmetricus Reed p. 343 figs. Pl 58, fig 4 |
1967 | Macrochilina symmetrica Pattison p. 179 |
1977 | Meekospira symmetrica Pattison p. 217 |
1991 | Meekospira symmetrica Hollingworth and Barker pp. 360-361 figs. 19-20, 22.7-22.8 |
2015 | Meekospira symmetrica Mazaev p. 973 figs. Pl 37, figs 4-7 |
2018 | Meekospira symmetrica Mazaev p. 822 figs. Pl 20, fig 5 |
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†Meekospira symmetrica King 1844
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available