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Lepetopsis levettei

Tergomya - Archinacellida - Metoptomatidae

Taxonomy
Patella levettei was named by White (1882). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Spergen Hill, near railroad station at Harristown, southeast of Salem, which is in a Meramecian carbonate limestone in the Salem Formation of Indiana. It is the type species of Lepetopsis.

It was recombined as Lepetopsis levettei by Whitfield (1882), Thein and Nitecki (1974) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Patella levettei White p. 359 figs. pl. 39 f. 4-5
1882Lepetopsis levettei Whitfield p. 68 figs. pl. 8 f. 9-12
1974Lepetopsis levettei Thein and Nitecki p. 117
2023Lepetopsis levettei Wagner p. 6132

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classTergomya
orderArchinacellida()
superfamilyArchinacelloidea()
familyMetoptomatidae
genusLepetopsis
specieslevettei()

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.

†Lepetopsis levettei White 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available