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Taxonomy
Acanthocrania vasta was named by Cooper and Grant (1974). Its type specimen is USNM 152573, a valve, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM731, Pinyon Tank, Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Wordian slope limestone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1974 | Acanthocrania vasta Cooper and Grant p. 245 figs. Pl 30, figs 13-18 |
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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.
†Acanthocrania vasta Cooper and Grant 1974
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available