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Hoarepora capitanensis

Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae

Taxonomy
Minycardita capitanensis was named by Vendrasco et al. (2010). Its type specimen is GUMO 15309, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills, which is in a Capitanian slope rudstone/packstone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Oxyprora capitanensis by Mazaev (2015); it was recombined as Hoarepora capitanensis by Mazaev (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2010Minycardita capitanensis Vendrasco et al. pp. 62 - 64 fig. 1
2015Oxyprora capitanensis Mazaev p. 243 fig. 5c
2023Hoarepora capitanensis Mazaev p. S73

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classRostroconchia
orderConocardiida()
superfamilyHippocardioideaPojeta and Runnegar 1976
familyBransoniidae
genusHoarepora
speciescapitanensis()

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.

†Hoarepora capitanensis Vendrasco et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. J. Vendrasco et al. 2010Small (5.1 mm long, including rostrum); body chamber swollen but with small flat region in middle of each side, curving with strong concavity into narrow rostrum with gently converging sides (Fig. 1C–D); primary carina rounded (Fig. 1B); rostral face shallowly concave, smooth (Fig. 1G); rostrum long with subcircular opening (Fig. 1G, I), parallel to hinge line; rostrum bordered by prominent rostral clefts (Fig. 1G, J); anterior snout much wider than rostrum, parallel-sided in dorsal view (Fig. 1C); anterior edge of snout deflected ventrally (Fig. 1A); anterior gape smooth-edged, tear-shaped, ventrally extending as narrowing denticulate opening into body (Fig. 1D–F); eight costae on body, nine costae on snout; anterior portion of snout without costae; two major and numerous fine comarginal growth lines on body and snout; protoconch (Fig. 1B) with small bulbous apex, rounded dorsally.