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Taxonomy
Proetus malacus was named by Lake (1904). Its type specimen is SAM-K559 and is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Ormistoniella.
It was recombined as Dechenella malaca by Eldredge and Ormiston (1979); it was recombined as Ormistoniella malaca by Cooper (1982).
It was recombined as Dechenella malaca by Eldredge and Ormiston (1979); it was recombined as Ormistoniella malaca by Cooper (1982).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1904 | Proetus malacus Lake p. 213 figs. pl. 25 |
| 1979 | Dechenella malaca Eldredge and Ormiston p. 164 |
| 1982 | Ormistoniella malaca Cooper pp. 6 - 14 figs. 1^, 5C, 6B, 7C |
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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.
†Ormistoniella malaca Lake 1904
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||