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Mekorhamphus gyralommus
Taxonomy
Mekorhamphus gyralommus was named by Poinar et al. (2016). Its type specimen is ISEA MA2015/1, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (ISEA Novosibirsk coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Mekorhamphus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2016 | Mekorhamphus gyralommus Poinar et al. p. 158 fig. 1,2 |
| 2018 | Mekorhamphus gyralommus Clarke and Oberprieler p. 133 fig. 56,57 |
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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.
†Mekorhamphus gyralommus Poinar et al. 2016
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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: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Mekorhamphus gyralommus (172900 type locality: 182624) |