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Apotocardium peculiare

Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae

Taxonomy
Conocardium peculiare was named by Girty (1910). Its type specimen is USNM 119981, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM 3651A-C. along south bluff hill., which is in a Meramecian marine shale in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.

It was recombined as Apotocardium peculiare by Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Conocardium peculiare Girty p. 227
1958Conocardium peculiare Branson pp. 140 - 142 figs. 9-10
1969Conocardium peculiare Pojeta p. 20 figs. pl. 4 f. 1-4
2023Apotocardium peculiare Wagner p. S6354

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classRostroconchia
orderConocardiida()
superfamilyHippocardioideaPojeta and Runnegar 1976
familyBransoniidae
genusApotocardium
speciespeculiare()

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.

†Apotocardium peculiare Girty 1910
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Diagnosis
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