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Lethamia ligurritus

Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae

Taxonomy
Lethamia ligurritus was named by Waterhouse (1973). Its type specimen is NZGS BR 957 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GS9697, Letham Burn (D44/f9001), which is in a Wordian marine horizon in the Mangarewa Formation of New Zealand. It is the type species of Lethamia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Lethamia ligurritus Waterhouse p. 38 figs. 2.4, 2.5
1982Lethamia ligurritus Waterhouse p. 42 figs. Pl 8c-i, 9a-j

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
RankNameAuthor
classStrophomenataWilliams et al 1996
orderProductidaSarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
suborderProductidina
superfamilyProductoideaGray 1840
familyProductellidaeSchuchert 1929
subfamilyOvertoniinaeMuir-Wood and Cooper 1960
tribeLethamiiniWaterhouse 2001
genusLethamia
speciesligurritus

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.

†Lethamia ligurritus Waterhouse 1973
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Diagnosis
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