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Mesotitan giganteus
Taxonomy
Mesotitan giganteus was named by Tillyard (1916). Its type specimen is GSQI22, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Carrington Brick Company's clay pit, St Peter's (Dunstan collection), which is in a Pelsonian/Illyrian pond claystone in the Ashfield Shale Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Mesotitan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1916 | Mesotitan giganteus Tillyard |
| 1954 | Mesotitan giganteus Riek p. 165 |
| 2007 | Mesotitan giganteus Béthoux p. 154 |
| 2021 | Mesotitan giganteus Schubnel et al. |
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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.
†Mesotitan giganteus Tillyard 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pelsonian - Illyrian | Australia (New South Wales) | Mesotitan giganteus (type locality: 111729) |