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Chionoxyela nivea
Taxonomy
Chionoxyela nivea was named by Rasnitsyn (1993). Its type specimen is PIN 3800/58, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Khetana River, outcrop 1, sample 3381/101 (PIN collection 3800), which is in a Coniacian lacustrine mudstone in the Amka Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Chionoxyela.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1993 | Chionoxyela nivea Rasnitsyn p. 53 figs. Pl 5, fig 1; text-fig 12 |
| 2010 | Chionoxyela nivea Taeger et al. p. 672 |
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†Chionoxyela nivea Rasnitsyn 1993
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available