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Mesotarbus peteri
Taxonomy
Mesotarbus peteri was named by Dunlop and Horrocks (1997). Its type specimen is MM LL 11150, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Westhoughton open cast colliery (Manchester Museum coll.), which is in a Westphalian A interdistributary bay shale in the Wigan Four-Foot Coal Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1997 | Mesotarbus peteri Dunlop and Horrocks p. 379 figs. 3-7 |
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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.
†Mesotarbus peteri Dunlop and Horrocks 1997
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015 |
Age range: Westphalian A or 318.70000 to 316.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Westphalian A | United Kingdom (England) | Mesotarbus peteri (type locality: 34944 124367) |