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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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†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. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Blake 1990 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available