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Menippe burnsi
Taxonomy
Menippe burnsi was named by Rathbun (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is City quarry near cemetery, Wilmington, which is in an Eocene marine marl in the Jackson Formation of North Carolina.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1935 | Menippe burnsi Rathbun p. 85 figs. Plate 19, figures 1-11 |
| 2010 | Menippe burnsi Schweitzer et al. p. 131 |
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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.
†Menippe burnsi Rathbun 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Eocene | USA (North Carolina) | Menippe burnsi (type locality: 142965) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | USA (South Carolina) | Menippe burnsi (142966) |