Leptochiton magnogranifer ( Ashby, 1925 )

Darragh, Thomas A., 2024, A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83, pp. 37-206 : 190

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.02

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scientific name

Leptochiton magnogranifer ( Ashby, 1925 )
status

 

Leptochiton magnogranifer ( Ashby, 1925) View in CoL

Lepidopleurus magnogranifer Ashby, 1925: 171 View in CoL , pl. 18, fig. 1.— Ashby and Cotton, 1939: 224, pl. 19, fig. 3.

Lepidopleurus relatus Ashby and Cotton,1939: 224 View in CoL , pl.19, fig.12. Terenochiton magnogranifer ( Ashby, 1925) .— Cotton and Godfrey, 1940: 576, Fig. 583; Cotton, 1964: 120, Fig. 133. Terenochiton relatus ( Ashby and Cotton, 1939) .— Cotton and Godfrey, 1940: 576, Fig. 584; Cotton, 1964: 120, Fig. 134. Leptochiton magnogranifer ( Ashby, 1925) View in CoL .—Gowlett-Holmes and McHenry, 1988b: 8.

Distribution. Otway Basin: Muddy Creek Formation (type). Age : middle Miocene.

Remarks. Cotton and Weeding, 1941: 444 suggested that L. relatus was probably an eroded fragment of L. magnogranifer . Gowlett-Holmes and McHenry (1988b) confirmed the synonymy after examining the type specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Polyplacophora

Order

Lepidopleurida

Family

Leptochitonidae

Genus

Leptochiton

Loc

Leptochiton magnogranifer ( Ashby, 1925 )

Darragh, Thomas A. 2024
2024
Loc

Lepidopleurus relatus

Cotton, B. C. 1964: 120
Cotton, B. C. 1964: 120
Cotton, B. C. & Godfrey, F. K. 1940: 576
Cotton, B. C. & Godfrey, F. K. 1940: 576
Ashby, E. & Cotton, B. C. 1939: 224
1939
Loc

Lepidopleurus magnogranifer

Ashby, E. & Cotton, B. C. 1939: 224
Ashby, E. 1925: 171
1925
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