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Melongena acanthina
Taxonomy
Cassidea acanthina was named by Dalton (1908) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene-Miocene; Myanmar, India.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Yenangyrat (Sitsayan stage), which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Sitsayan Formation of Myanmar.
It was recombined as Melongena acanthina by Vredenburg (1921).
It was recombined as Melongena acanthina by Vredenburg (1921).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1908 | Cassidea acanthina Dalton p. 629 figs. pl. 57, fig. 1 |
| 1921 | Melongena acanthina Vredenburg p. 340 |
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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.
†Melongena acanthina Dalton 1908
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||