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Brevipelta chouberti
Taxonomy
Brevipelta chouberti was named by Geyer (1994) [= Botsfordia sp. Hupé 1959 (p. 29, P1. 2, fig. 13)]. Its type specimen is PIW 93II9a, a shell (pedicle valve), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CH-11 (=F5), Tazemmourt Section, which is in an Atdabanian marine mudstone/conglomerate in the Amouslek Formation of Morocco. It is the type species of Brevipelta.
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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.
†Brevipelta chouberti Geyer 1994
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Invalid names: Botsfordia amouslekensis Hupé 1959 [replaced], Botsfordia tazemmourtensis Hupé 1959 [replaced], Botsfordia undulata Hupé 1959 [replaced]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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G. Geyer 1994 | Ventral valve with deep and clearly conical delthyrial opening, which is weakly defined anteriorly; cardinal muscle bases directed anterolaterally, oblique to axis. Dorsal valve with comparatively poorly developed muscle scars; median ridge barely elevated or obsolete. |