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Mursia obscura
Taxonomy
Mursia obscura was named by Rathbun (1918). Its type specimen is USNM 324225 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 6010, north of Pedro Miguel locks, which is in an Aquitanian marine claystone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.
It was recombined as Acanthocarpus obscurus by Schweitzer et al. (2010) and Luque et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Acanthocarpus obscurus by Schweitzer et al. (2010) and Luque et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1918 | Mursia obscura Rathbun p. 159 |
| 2010 | Acanthocarpus obscurus Schweitzer et al. p. 82 |
| 2017 | Acanthocarpus obscurus Luque et al. p. 8 |
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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.
†Mursia obscura Rathbun 1918
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997, Fearon and Clapham 2023 | |||||
Age range: Aquitanian or 23.03000 to 20.44000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquitanian | Panama | Mursia obscura (type locality: 207015) |