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Zanthopsis cretacea
Taxonomy
Zanthopsis cretacea was named by Rathbun (1902). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Parahyba do Norte, which is in a Maastrichtian marine limestone in Brazil. It is the type species of Palaeoxanthopsis.
It was recombined as Palaeoxanthopsis cretacea by Schweitzer et al. (2010), Luque et al. (2017) and Schweitzer et al. (2018).
It was recombined as Palaeoxanthopsis cretacea by Schweitzer et al. (2010), Luque et al. (2017) and Schweitzer et al. (2018).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1902 | Zanthopsis cretacea Rathbun |
2010 | Palaeoxanthopsis cretacea Schweitzer et al. p. 115 |
2017 | Palaeoxanthopsis cretacea Luque et al. p. 13 |
2018 | Palaeoxanthopsis cretacea Schweitzer et al. p. 10 fig. 6.4 |
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†Zanthopsis cretacea Rathbun 1902
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available