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Metaraphidia confusa
Taxonomy
Metaraphidia confusa was named by Whalley (1985). Its type specimen is GSM 117552, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Charmouth (GSM), which is in a Sinemurian marine siliciclastic in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Metaraphidia.
It was recombined as Mesoraphidia confusa by Whalley (1988).
It was recombined as Mesoraphidia confusa by Whalley (1988).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1985 | Metaraphidia confusa Whalley p. 148 figs. Figs 44-45 |
| 1988 | Mesoraphidia confusa Whalley p. 61 |
| 2002 | Metaraphidia confusa Engel p. 19 |
| 2011 | Metaraphidia confusa Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger p. 232 |
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†Metaraphidia confusa Whalley 1985
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available