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Metopaster elongatus
Taxonomy
Metopaster elongatus was named by Breton and Néraudeau (2008). Its type specimen is Holotype MHNH 9142, paratypes 9143 and is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Metopaster elongatus Breton and Néraudeau p. 330 figs. figs. 2.5a-b, 4.4 |
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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.
†Metopaster elongatus Breton and Néraudeau 2008
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| G. Breton and D. Néraudeau 2008 | Distalmost superomarginal enlarged, low, trapezoidal in abactinal view, slightly upright distally, with a very elongate adradial face, and articulated with two to three inferomarginal, a terminal and few abactinal plates. External face slighlty concave because of the distal upright, without a differenciated central area. ornament of very fine and dense granule pits. |