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Metopaster elevatus
Taxonomy
Metopaster elevatus was named by Brünnich-Nielsen (1943). It is not extant.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1943 | Metopaster elevatus Brünnich-Nielsen p. 36 figs. pl. 2 fig. 2 |
1950 | Metopaster elevatus Rasmussen pp. 47-48 figs. 4k, pl. 5 fig. 9-10 |
1979 | Metopaster elevatus Rasmussen p. 70 |
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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.
†Metopaster elevatus Brünnich-Nielsen 1943
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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H. W. Rasmussen 1950 | A Metopaster whose ultimate superomarginal is very short and tall, with a strong abactinal swelling. The tip of the arm (the terminal ossicle) is only slightly elevated above the lower edge of the superomarginals. The Ornamentation is composed of a depressed border, and within this scattered spine-pits, which are largest on the abactinal swelling. |