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Megastus elongatus
Taxonomy
Megastus elongatus was named by Roth (1898). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Canyons of Lower valley of Collón Cura River, which is in a Colloncuran terrestrial horizon in the Collón Cura Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Megastus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1898 | Megastus elongatus Roth p. 53 |
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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.
†Megastus elongatus Roth 1898
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Colloncuran or 15.50000 to 13.80000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Colloncuran | Argentina (Neuquén) | Megastus elongatus (type locality: 207561) |