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Afrocupes firmae
Taxonomy
Afrocupes firmae was named by Geertsema and van den Heever (1996). Its type specimen is USP 1, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Kenmoore Farm, which is in an Artinskian lacustrine - large shale in the Whitehill Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Afrocupes.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Afrocupes firmae Geertsema and van den Heever p. 498 fig. 1,2 |
| 2020 | Afrocupes firmae Kirejtshuk p. 14 |
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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.
†Afrocupes firmae Geertsema and van den Heever 1996
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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: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 283.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Artinskian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Afrocupes firmae (type locality: 156986) |