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Protaxis chinensis
Taxonomy
Protaxis chinensis was named by Zhang (1989). Its type specimen is s82694, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection s (Shandong Provincial Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1989 | Protaxis chinensis Zhang p. 176 figs. Pl 48, fig 2; text-fig 166 |
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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.
†Protaxis chinensis Zhang 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.45000 to 15.98000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | Protaxis chinensis (type locality: 128552) |