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Marocella antiqua

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Helcionellidae

Taxonomy
Scenella antiqua was named by Kiær (1916). Its type specimen is PMO 73172, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Holmia fauna, Tomten [Sparagmite Fm], which is in a Botomian deep subtidal shale/sandstone in the Ringstrand Formation of Norway.

It was recombined as Emeiconus antiqua by He and Yang (1982); it was recombined as Marocella antiqua by Geyer (1986); it was recombined as Helcionella antiqua by Høyberget et al. (2015); it was recombined as Purella antiqua by Qian and Bengtson (1989), Ponder et al. (2007), Kouchinsky et al. (2017) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Scenella antiqua Kiær figs. pl. 2 f. 1, 1a-c
1921Scenella antiqua Cobbold p. 364
1982Emeiconus antiqua He and Yang p. 84
1986Marocella antiqua Geyer p. 97
1989Purella antiqua Qian and Bengtson p. 97
2007Purella antiqua Ponder et al. p. 137
2015Helcionella antiqua Høyberget et al. pp. 45 - 47 fig. 14A–L
2017Purella antiqua Kouchinsky et al. p. 364
2023Purella antiqua Wagner p. S5731

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classHelcionelloidaPeel 1991
orderHelcionellida
superfamilyHelcionelloidea(Wenz 1938)
familyHelcionellidae
genusMarocella
speciesantiqua()

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.

Marocella antiqua Kiær 1916
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Diagnosis
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