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Mexicella obscurus
Taxonomy
Syspacephalus obscurus was named by Palmer and Halley (1979). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Grapevine Mountains (USGS 4140-CO), which is in a Delamaran shallow subtidal mudstone/limestone in the Carrara Formation of California.
It was recombined as Mexicella obscurus by Sundberg (2004).
It was recombined as Mexicella obscurus by Sundberg (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1979 | Syspacephalus obscurus Palmer and Halley p. 116 figs. Plate 7, figures 6-13, 15 |
| 2004 | Mexicella obscurus Sundberg pp. Appendix 2 |
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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 obscurus Palmer and Halley 1979
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999, Hendy 2009 | |||||