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Melanatria cretacea
Taxonomy
Melanatria cretacea was named by Wade (1926). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dave Weeks place, Coon Creek, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone in the Ripley Formation of Tennessee.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Melanatria cretacea Wade |
| 1960 | Melanatria cretacea Sohl p. 79 |
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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.
†Melanatria cretacea Wade 1926
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class | |||||
| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Tennessee) | Melanatria cretacea (type locality: 88357) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | USA (Tennessee) | Melanatria cretacea (7515) |