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Tetraphalerella musculosa
Taxonomy
Strophomena musculosa was named by Fenton (1928). Its type specimen is Walker Mus. 25524 and is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Tetraphalerella musculosa by Pope (1982).
It was recombined as Tetraphalerella musculosa by Pope (1982).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Tetraphalerella musculosa Fenton 1928
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Diagnosis
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J. K. Pope 1982 | Shells large; outline semicircular, subrectangular, or subtriangular, obscurely nasute; alate. Dorsal valve strongly convex. Parvicostellate, alternation irregular. Cardinal extremities deeply and coarsely rugose. Diductor muscle field wide, flabellate, radially ridged; muscle-bounding ridge scalloped. Cardinalia small relative to size of valve. |