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Cancer marri
Taxonomy
Cancer (Metacarcinus) marri was named by Nations (1975). Its type specimen is UCMP 10739, a claw, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP D-3402, Opal Cliffs, which is in a Messinian coastal siltstone in the Purisima Formation of California.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer marri by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer marri by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Cancer (Metacarcinus) marri Nations p. 52 figs. 29-1, 29-4 |
| 2010 | Cancer marri Schweitzer et al. p. 101 |
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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.
†Cancer marri Nations 1975
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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 | |||||