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Institella leonardensis

Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae

Taxonomy
Productus leonardensis was named by King (1931). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is R.E. King 120, Clay Slide, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in Texas.

It was recombined as Institella leonardensis by Muir-Wood and Cooper (1960), Cooper and Grant (1975), Chen (2004) and Shen et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Productus leonardensis King p. 70 figs. Pl 14, figs 4-9
1960Institella leonardensis Muir-Wood and Cooper p. 118 figs. Pl 22, figs 1-15
1975Institella leonardensis Cooper and Grant p. 873
2004Institella leonardensis Chen p. 26 figs. Pl 4, figs 22,23,25
2011Institella leonardensis Shen et al. p. 559 figs. 3.7-3.9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classStrophomenataWilliams et al 1996
orderProductidaSarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
suborderStrophalosiidina
superfamilyAulostegoideaMuir-Wood and Cooper 1960
familyAulostegidae
subfamilyInstitellinae
genusInstitellaCooper 1942
speciesleonardensis()

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.

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Diagnosis
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