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Mesothaumalea fossilis
Taxonomy
Mesothaumalea fossilis was named by Kovalev (1989). Its type specimen is PIN 2372/33, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daya (PIN collection 2372), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Glushkovo Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Mesothaumalea.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1989 | Mesothaumalea fossilis Kovalev p. 799 figs. 1-3 |
| 2022 | Mesothaumalea fossilis Sinclair et al. p. 28 |
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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.
†Mesothaumalea fossilis Kovalev 1989
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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 | |||||