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Cancer fissus
Taxonomy
Cancer fissus was named by Rathbun (1908). Its type specimen is USNM 165477, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 4756, Henry Spring, which is in a Zanclean coastal siliciclastic in the Etchegoin Formation of California.
It was recombined as Cancer (Cancer) fissus by Nations (1975).
It was recombined as Cancer (Cancer) fissus by Nations (1975).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1908 | Cancer fissus Rathbun p. 343 figs. Plate 49, fig. 1 |
| 1926 | Cancer fissus Rathbun p. 60 |
| 1975 | Cancer (Cancer) fissus Nations p. 48 figs. 20, 26, 40-1 to 40-5 |
| 2002 | Cancer fissus Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961 |
| 2010 | Cancer fissus Schweitzer et al. p. 101 |
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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.
†Cancer fissus Rathbun 1908
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Turnsek 1997, Aberhan 1992, Fearon and Clapham 2023 | |||||