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Chelichnus megacheirus
Taxonomy
Chelichnus megacheirus was named by Huxley (1859). It is considered to be a form taxon. It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Mason Heugh's Quarry, Cummingstone, which is in a Carnian/Norian terrestrial sandstone in the Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1859 | Chelichnus megacheirus Huxley |
| 1971 | Chelichnus megacheirus Haubold p. 37 |
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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.
†Chelichnus megacheirus Huxley 1859
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Bambach et al. 2007 | |||||
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Carnian - Norian | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Chelichnus megacheirus (type locality: 197333) |