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Pollicina corniculum

Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Pollicinidae

Taxonomy
Cyrtolithes corniculum was named by d'Eichwald (1860) [= Cyrtoceras laeve d’Eichwald 1842 p. 71 pl. 3 f. 5-6 not Murchison 1839; = Cyrtoceras ?multicameratum de la Touche 1884 p. 56 pl. 2 f. 47]. Its type specimen is Museum of the Department of Historical Geology, St. Petersburg University, E. Eichwald collection no. 4/22 (lectotype), a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pulkovo, Asaphus raniceps, which is in a Kunda carbonate wackestone/packstone in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Pollicina corniculum by Holzapfel (1895), Kisselev (1994) and Evans and Cope (2003).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Cyrtolithes corniculum d'Eichwald p. 71 figs. pl. 3 f. 5-6
1895Pollicina corniculum Holzapfel p. 185
1994Pollicina corniculum Kisselev p. 35 figs. 1a-f
2003Pollicina corniculum Evans and Cope p. 145 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classTergomya
orderCyrtonellida
familyPollicinidaeStarobogatov 1974
genusPollicina
speciescorniculum()

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.

†Pollicina corniculum d'Eichwald 1860
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