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Megapterites mirabilis
Taxonomy
Megapterites mirabilis was named by Cockerell (1920). Its type specimen is British Museum In. 2596, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH), which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Formicium mirabile by Lutz (1990), Archibald et al. (2011), Bolton (2012).
It was recombined as Formicium mirabile by Lutz (1990), Archibald et al. (2011), Bolton (2012).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1920 | Megapterites mirabilis Cockerell p. 278 |
| 1921 | Megapterites mirabilis Cockerell p. 22 fig. 26 |
| 1949 | Megapterites mirabilis Maa p. 78 fig. 93a |
| 1990 | Formicium mirabile Lutz p. 61 figs. 2a-c |
| 2011 | Formicium mirabile Archibald et al. |
| 2012 | Formicium mirabile Bolton |
| 2012 | Megapterites mirabilis Schiff et al. p. 111 |
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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.
†Megapterites mirabilis Cockerell 1920
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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 | |||||