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Manespira rotunda
Taxonomy
Protozyga rotunda was named by Cooper (1956). Its type specimen is USNM 111433a, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 0.3 mile southwest of Little Barren Church, on old Tennessee Highway 33, which is in an Ashbyan carbonate limestone in the Wardell Formation of Tennessee.
It was recombined as Manespira rotunda by Candela and Harper (2014).
It was recombined as Manespira rotunda by Candela and Harper (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1956 | Protozyga rotunda Cooper pp. 683 - 684 figs. Plate 140, B, figures 10-16; plate 140, H, figures 48-52; plate 140, 1, figures 53-58 |
| 1962 | Protozyga rotunda Williams p. 243 figs. Pl. XXV, figs. 8-11, 15-18, 24 |
| 2014 | Manespira rotunda Candela and Harper pp. Supplement 1 |
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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.
†Manespira rotunda Cooper 1956
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Williams 1962 | Small, elliptical to subpentagonal, biconvex Protozyga with the pedicle valve about nineteenths as wide as long and the complete shell almost one-half as thick as the length of the pedicle valve; a rounded median fold, bounded by a pair of sulci, commonly developed in the brachial valve at the 2-mm. growth-stage and very rarely was divided by a shallow median sulcus into a pair of submedian folds. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||