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Menetus carinifex
Taxonomy
Menetus carinifex was named by Taylor and Smith (1981). Its type specimen is UMMZ 250115, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mopung Hills locality A, which is in a Pliocene lacustrine limestone in the Truckee Formation of Nevada.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1981 | Menetus carinifex Taylor and Smith p. 366 figs. pl. 11-12 |
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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.
†Menetus carinifex Taylor and Smith 1981
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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 | |||||