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Ancylochira metallica
Taxonomy
Ancylochira metallica was named by Piton (1940). Its type specimen is Coll. Piton 347, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1940 | Ancylochira metallica Piton p. 188 figs. Pl XVII fig 2 |
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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.
†Ancylochira metallica Piton 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available