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Cancer coosensis
Taxonomy
Cancer (Metacarcinus) coosensis was named by Nations (1975). Its type specimen is USNM 170552, a claw, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 18284, Coos Bay dredge, which is in a Burdigalian coastal shale/sandstone in the Astoria Formation of Oregon.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer coosensis by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer coosensis by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Cancer (Metacarcinus) coosensis Nations p. 56 figs. 28, 35-7 to 35-10 |
| 2010 | Cancer coosensis Schweitzer et al. p. 101 |
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†Cancer coosensis Nations 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available