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Mecochirus marwicki
Taxonomy
Mecochirus marwicki was named by Glaessner (1960). Its type specimen is NZGS DC 266, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Klondyke Road, Waikato Heads, which is in a Heterian marine horizon in New Zealand.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1960 | Mecochirus marwicki Glaessner p. 9 |
| 1992 | Mecochirus marwicki Feldmann and Keys p. 9 |
| 2010 | Mecochirus marwicki Schweitzer et al. p. 20 |
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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.
†Mecochirus marwicki Glaessner 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
| References: Turnsek 1997, Aberhan 1992, Fearon and Clapham 2023 | |||||
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Heterian | New Zealand (North Island) | Mecochirus marwicki (type locality: 202170) | |
| Heterian | New Zealand (Kawhia) | Mecochirus marwicki (35731) | |
| Puaroan | New Zealand | Mecochirus marwicki (63754) |