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Taxonomy
Cretaraneus vilaltae was named by Selden (1990). Its type specimen is IEI LC 1150, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is La Cabrua outcrop, Sierra del Montsec (IEI collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the la Pedrera de Rubies Formation of Spain. It is the type species of Cretaraneus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Cretaraneus vilaltae Selden p. 270 figs. 2-4 |
| 2003 | Cretaraneus vilaltae Selden and Penney p. 189 |
| 2013 | Cretaraneus vilaltae Dunlop et al. p. 159 |
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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.
†Cretaraneus vilaltae Selden 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Early/Lower Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Barremian | Spain | Cretaraneus vilaltae (type locality: 104052) |