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Taxonomy
Myrtaea asphaltica was named by Cooke (1919) [DISTRIBUTION: ?Oligocene-Miocene; Caribbean.]. Its type specimen is USNM 167186, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.
It was recombined as Cubatea asphaltica by Kiel et al. (2010).
It was recombined as Cubatea asphaltica by Kiel et al. (2010).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1919 | Myrtaea asphaltica Cooke p. 149 figs. pl. 14, figs. 7, 8, 9 |
| 2010 | Cubatea asphaltica Kiel et al. p. 40 |
| 2013 | Myrtaea asphaltica Kiel p. 348 |
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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.
†Myrtaea asphaltica Cooke 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available