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Dactylites obconica

Demospongiae - Anthracosyconidae

Taxonomy
Dactylites obconica was named by Rigby and Bell (2006) [Holotype at Guadalupe Mountains National Park]. Its type specimen is GUMO 5250m and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills, which is in a Capitanian slope rudstone/packstone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Dactylites obconica Rigby and Bell p. 34 figs. 11.12-11.15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
subclassLithistida(Schmidt 1870)
RankNameAuthor
suborderOrchocladinaRauff 1895
familyAnthracosyconidae
genusDactylites
speciesobconica

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Dactylites obconica Rigby and Bell 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available