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Cancer durhami
Taxonomy
Cancer (Metacarcinus) durhami was named by Nations (1975). Its type specimen is UCMP 10744, a claw, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP A-9733, Hot Springs Canyon, which is in a Zanclean coastal siliciclastic in the Etchegoin Formation of California.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer durhami by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer durhami by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Cancer (Metacarcinus) durhami Nations p. 55 figs. 34-5, 34-6, 34-7 |
| 2010 | Cancer durhami Schweitzer et al. p. 101 |
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†Cancer durhami Nations 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available