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Lophoconcha corrugata

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae

Taxonomy
Isoarca corrugata was named by Tate (1896). Its type specimen is SAM T 1272a, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Middle Valley (Tempe Downs), which is in a Darriwilian carbonate limestone in the Stokes Siltstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Lophoconcha.

It was recombined as Lophoconcha corrugata by Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson (1977).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1896Isoarca corrugata Tate p. 106 figs. pl. 1 f. 8
1977Lophoconcha corrugata Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson pp. 15-16 figs. pl. 14 f. 6-9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
RankNameAuthor
—Eubivalvia
subclassProtobranchia(Pelseneer 1889)
superorderNuculaniformiiCarter et al. 2000
orderNuculanida(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamilyNuculanoideaAdams and Adams 1858
familyMalletiidae(Adams and Adams 1858)
genusLophoconcha
speciescorrugata()

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.

†Lophoconcha corrugata Tate 1896
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Diagnosis
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