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Megabittacus colosseus
Taxonomy
Megabittacus colosseus was named by Ren (1997). Its type specimen is GMCB LB95050, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Near Chaomidian Village (GMC Beijing coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China. It is the type species of Megabittacus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Megabittacus colosseus Ren p. 77 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; text-figs 1,2 |
| 2016 | Megabittacus colosseus Kopeć et al. p. 126 fig. 5 |
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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.
†Megabittacus colosseus Ren 1997
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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 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper 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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| Late/Upper Barremian | China (Liaoning) | Megabittacus colosseus (type locality: 138436) |