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Maltaia maltensis

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae

Taxonomy
Maltaia maltensis was named by Cooper (1983). Its type specimen is USNM 551164a, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Island of Malta, which is in a Messinian carbonate limestone in the Upper Coralline Limestone Formation of Malta. It is the type species of Maltaia.

It was synonymized subjectively with Terebratula sinuosa by Gaetani and Sacca (1985).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Maltaia maltensis Cooper p. 232 figs. Pl 6, figs 15-28; pl 64, figs 7,8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classRhynchonellataWilliams et al. 1996
orderTerebratulida
suborderTerebratulidina
superfamilyTerebratuloidea(Gray 1840)
familyTerebratulidaeGray 1840
subfamilyTerebratulinaeGray 1840
genusMaltaia
speciesmaltensis

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.

†Maltaia maltensis Cooper 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available