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Cancer yanceyi
Taxonomy
Cancer (Romaleon) yanceyi was named by Nations (1975). Its type specimen is UCMP 10742, a claw, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP B-7727, Kettleman Hills, which is in a Piacenzian coastal siliciclastic in the San Joaquin Formation of California.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer yanceyi by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000); it was recombined as Cancer yanceyi by Schweitzer et al. (2010).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Cancer (Romaleon) yanceyi Nations p. 55 figs. 32-2, 32-3 |
| 2010 | Cancer yanceyi Schweitzer et al. p. 102 |
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†Cancer yanceyi Nations 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available