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Afrapia robusta
Taxonomy
Afromaimetsha robusta was named by Rasnitsyn and Brothers (2009). Its type specimen is BP/2/27111-1, an exoskeleton (almost complete female), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.
It was recombined as Afrapia robusta by Li et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Afrapia robusta by Li et al. (2025).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Afromaimetsha robusta Rasnitsyn and Brothers p. 200 fig. 7 |
| 2025 | Afrapia robusta Li et al. p. 6 |
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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.
†Afrapia robusta Rasnitsyn and Brothers 2009
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||