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Orbiculoidea prietana

Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae

Taxonomy
Orbiculoidea prietana was named by Chronic (1949). Its type specimen is AMNH 26912/2:1, a valve (Dorsal valve), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is AMNH309, Pan de Azucar, Amotape Mountains, which is in a Bashkirian/Moscovian marine horizon in Peru.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1949Orbiculoidea prietana Chronic p. 53
1953Orbiculoidea prietana Chronic p. 51 figs. Pl 5, figs 1a-4b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
RankNameAuthor
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
subphylumLinguliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classLingulataGorjansky and Popov 1985
orderLingulidaWaagen 1885
superfamilyDiscinoidea(Gray 1840)
familyDiscinidaeGray 1840
genusOrbiculoidead'Orbigny 1847
speciesprietana

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.

†Orbiculoidea prietana Chronic 1949
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Diagnosis
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