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Merascylla atavella
Taxonomy
Epyris atavellus was named by Cockerell (1920). It is not extant. Its type specimen is BMNH In.20149(1), an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
It was recombined as Merascylla atavella by Colombo and Azevedo (2021).
It was recombined as Merascylla atavella by Colombo and Azevedo (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1920 | Epyris atavellus Cockerell p. 276 |
| 1987 | Epyris atavellus Spahr p. 17 |
| 1988 | Epyris atavellus Sorg p. 73 |
| 2000 | Epyris atavellus Ross and York p. 14 fig. 20 |
| 2012 | Epyris atavellus Azevedo and Azar p. 217 |
| 2018 | Epyris atavellus Azevedo et al. p. 160 |
| 2021 | Merascylla atavella Colombo and Azevedo p. 75 fig. 24 |
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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.
†Merascylla atavella Cockerell 1920
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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 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | Epyris atavellus (type locality: 123020) |