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Taxonomy
Ellipsocephalus depressus was named by Salter In Murchinson (1859). Its type specimen is BGS GSM10843 (lectotype), a thorax (trunk), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Beltella depressa by Lake (1919), Rushton (1982) and Fortey and Owens (1991); it was recombined as Leptoplastides depressus by Morris (1988) and Zylinska (2001).
It was recombined as Beltella depressa by Lake (1919), Rushton (1982) and Fortey and Owens (1991); it was recombined as Leptoplastides depressus by Morris (1988) and Zylinska (2001).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1859 | Ellipsocephalus depressus Salter In Murchinson p. 47 figs. fig. 2 |
| 1859 | Ellipsocephalus depressus Salter and In Murchison p. 47 figs. fig. 2 |
| 1919 | Beltella depressa Lake p. 104 figs. pl. 12, figs. 6-8 |
| 1982 | Beltella depressa Rushton p. 52 figs. pl. 3, fig. 12 |
| 1988 | Leptoplastides depressus Morris p. 126 |
| 1991 | Beltella depressa Fortey and Owens p. 71 |
| 2001 | Leptoplastides depressus Zylinska p. 360 |
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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.
†Leptoplastides depressus Salter In Murchinson 1859
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||
Age range: Tremadocian or 485.40000 to 477.70000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tremadocian | United Kingdom | Beltella depressa (208218 208221 208223) | |
| Tremadocian | Canada (Newfoundland) | Beltella depressa (223757) |