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Cornwallatia tabularia

Anthozoa - Auloporida - Gorskyitidae

Taxonomy
Cornwallia tabularia was named by Hoare (1964). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. USGS 20377-PC, Rowland Quad., which is in a Wolfcamp marine grainstone in Nevada.

It was recombined as Cornwallatia tabularia by Wilson (1991), Wilson and Langenheim (1993) and Wilson (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Cornwallia tabularia Hoare p. 502 figs. Pl 77, figs 3-9
1991Cornwallatia tabularia Wilson p. 739 figs. 8.2-8.4
1993Cornwallatia tabularia Wilson and Langenheim, Jr. p. 942 fig. 6.4,6.5
1994Cornwallatia tabularia Wilson p. 949 fig. 6.4,6.5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassTabulataMilne-Edwards and Haime 1850
orderAuloporidaSokolov 1947
RankNameAuthor
superfamilySyringoporoidea(Fromentel 1861)
familyGorskyitidaeLin 1963
genusCornwallatia
speciestabularia(Hoare 1964)

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.

Cornwallatia tabularia Hoare 1964
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Diagnosis
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