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Elkania desiderata
Taxonomy
Obolella desiderata was named by Billings (1865). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Point Levis. Graptolitic Slate, which is in a Cassinian marine slate in the Levis Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Elkania.
It was recombined as Billingsia desiderata by Ford (1886); it was recombined as Elkania desiderata by Ford (1886) and Williams et al. (2000).
It was recombined as Billingsia desiderata by Ford (1886); it was recombined as Elkania desiderata by Ford (1886) and Williams et al. (2000).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1865 | Obolella desiderata Billings pp. 69 - 70 figs. 62a-b |
| 1886 | Elkania desiderata Ford p. 325 |
| 1886 | Billingsia desiderata Ford p. 466 figs. 1, 2 |
| 2000 | Elkania desiderata Williams et al. p. 67 fig. 30,2a,b |
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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.
†Elkania desiderata Billings 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy 2009, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||