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Metacarcinus granti
Taxonomy
Cancer granti was named by Rathbun (1932). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCLA 1096, Olive Community no 1 well, which is in a Piacenzian marine siliciclastic in the Pico Formation of California.
It was recombined as Cancer (Romaleon) granti by Nations (1975); it was recombined as Metacarcinus granti by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000) and Schweitzer et al. (2010).
It was recombined as Cancer (Romaleon) granti by Nations (1975); it was recombined as Metacarcinus granti by Schweitzer and Feldmann (2000) and Schweitzer et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1932 | Cancer granti Rathbun p. 19 fig. 1 |
| 1975 | Cancer (Romaleon) granti Nations p. 50 figs. 21, 33-7, 33-8 |
| 2000 | Metacarcinus granti Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 235 |
| 2010 | Metacarcinus granti Schweitzer et al. p. 102 |
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†Metacarcinus granti Rathbun 1932
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available