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Hadropipetta nevadensis

Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Pseudobigaleaidae

Taxonomy
Hadropipetta nevadensis was named by Hoare and Plas (2003). Its type specimen is Holotype, UI x8870, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is UCMP D-5252, Lookout Hill, Southern Arrow Canyon Range, which is in an Artinskian shallow subtidal limestone in the Bird Spring Formation of Nevada.

It was corrected as Hadropipetta nevadaensis by Rogalla and Amler (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Hadropipetta nevadensis Hoare and Plas p. 873 figs. 1.1-1.8
2006Hadropipetta nevadaensis Rogalla and Amler p. 176
2023Hadropipetta nevadensis Wagner p. 3757

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classRostroconchia
orderConocardiida()
superfamilyHippocardioideaPojeta and Runnegar 1976
familyPseudobigaleaidae
subfamilyPseudobigaleainaeHoare et al. 2002
genusHadropipetta
speciesnevadensis

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.

Hadropipetta nevadensis Hoare and Plas 2003
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. D. Hoare and L.P. Plas 2003Small; primary carina prominent, flaring; body with 5–6 radial costae, becoming finer anteriorly; snout with 10–12 finer costae; distal end of elongate rostrum subcircular; rostral clefts present.

Description.—Small (12 mm long including rostrum) with short body-snout area; inner shell layer of body with 5–6 radial costae, snout with 10–12 finer costae; outer shell layer of body and snout ornamented with fine to coarse, closely spaced comarginal lirae, body with 0–2 radial costae anterior to primary costa; rostral face concave, angular at midline, strongly produced posteriorly into large, elongate rostrum; inner shell layer of rostral face with 14 small concentric costae, outer shell layer smooth; anterior gape limited to snout, tear-drop in shape, nondenticulate; posterior ventral opening small, subcircular; rostral clefts present; internally with low ridge extending from beak area through rostrum on dorsolateral surface and a small curved ridge extending from dorsal margin in dorsal snout area; larval shell possibly present.