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Palaeostylus acuminatus
Taxonomy
Turritella acuminata was named by Goldfuss (1832). It is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Melania acuminata by Goldfuss (1844); it was recombined as Chemnitzia acuminata by Keyserling (1846); it was recombined as Meekospira acuminata by Reed (1944); it was recombined as Palaeostylus acuminatus by Wagner (2023); it was recombined as Loxonema acuminatum by de Koninck (1881), Perner (1907), Gromczakiewicz-Łomnicka (1973) and Wagner (2023).
It was recombined as Melania acuminata by Goldfuss (1844); it was recombined as Chemnitzia acuminata by Keyserling (1846); it was recombined as Meekospira acuminata by Reed (1944); it was recombined as Palaeostylus acuminatus by Wagner (2023); it was recombined as Loxonema acuminatum by de Koninck (1881), Perner (1907), Gromczakiewicz-Łomnicka (1973) and Wagner (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1832 | Turritella acuminata Goldfuss p. 354 |
| 1844 | Melania acuminata Goldfuss |
| 1846 | Chemnitzia acuminata Keyserling |
| 1881 | Loxonema acuminatum de Koninck p. 44 figs. pl. 4 f. 32-33 |
| 1907 | Loxonema acuminatum Perner |
| 1944 | Meekospira acuminata Reed p. 337 figs. Pl 58, fig 2 |
| 1973 | Loxonema acuminatum Gromczakiewicz-Łomnicka pp. 49 - 50 figs. pl. 9 f. 10 |
| 2023 | Loxonema acuminatum Wagner p. 1707 |
| 2023 | Palaeostylus acuminatus Wagner p. 2599 |
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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.
†Palaeostylus acuminatus Goldfuss 1832
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| shell height | 1 | 80.0 |
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| Reference: Kiessling 2004 | |||||