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Mexicella antelopea
Taxonomy
Mexicella antelopea was named by Sundberg and McCollum (2000). Its type specimen is USNM 497977, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Mexicella antelopea Sundberg and McCollum p. 624 figs. Figure 14.1–14.7 |
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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.
†Mexicella antelopea Sundberg and McCollum 2000
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. A. Sundberg and L. B. McCollum 2000 | Cranidium with glabella moderately inflated; gla- bellar furrows very shallow to absent. Axial furrows moderately shallow; convex and convergent from the S0 to S2 and then near- ly parallel to frontal lobe. Ocular ridges very faint to absent. Li- brigena with relatively long spine (approximately 40 percent li- brigenal length). |
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| References: Fortey and Owens 1999, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009 | |||||