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Liguloclema meridianus

Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Etherellidae

Taxonomy
Sulcoretepora meridianus was named by Etheridge (1926). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mount Marmion (Maitland coll), which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Noonkanbah Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Liguloclema meridianus by Sakagami (1973), Liu and Wang (1987), Sakagami (1999), Sakagami (2000) and Ernst (2016).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Sulcoretepora meridianus Etheridge Jr. p. 19 figs. Pl 1, fig 9
1944Sulcoretepora meridianus Crockford p. 156 figs. Pl 4, fig 6; text-figs 29,30
1973Liguloclema meridianus Sakagami p. 77 figs. Pl 11, figs 1-4
1987Liguloclema meridianus Liu and Wang p. 7 figs. Pl 2, figs 7,8
1999Liguloclema meridianus Sakagami p. 86 figs. Pl 21, figs 1-3
2000Liguloclema meridianus Sakagami p. 147 figs. 4.5, 4.6
2016Liguloclema meridianus Ernst p. 18 figs. 8.8, 9.1-9.5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
RankNameAuthor
phylumBryozoaEhrenberg 1831
classStenolaemataBorg 1926
superorderPalaeostomataMa et al. 2014
orderCystoporida(Astrova 1964)
familyEtherellidaeCrockford 1957
genusLiguloclema
speciesmeridianus()

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.

Liguloclema meridianus Etheridge Jr. 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available