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Petasotheca minuta
Taxonomy
Petasotheca minuta was named by Landing and Bartowski (1996). Its type specimen is NYSM 15555, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is E-Bar-4.0 - Keeler's Eskimo Bar ice cream stand, which is in a Dyeran slope siltstone in the Browns Pond Formation of New York.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Petasotheca minuta Landing and Bartowski p. 759 figs. 6.9-6.13, 11.3 |
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†Petasotheca minuta Landing and Bartowski 1996
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. Landing and K.E. Bartowski 1996 | Species of Petasotheca new genus with seven lateral clavicles that increase in size dorsally and a raised, dorsolateral lobe composed of four additional clavicles; conch is simple, curved, has elliptical cross-section and apical angle of 15"-20".
Discussion.-The conchs are curved and differentiable from those of associated Conotheca laurentiensis new species. |