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Taxonomy
Cretomegahexura platnicki was named by Eskov and Zonshtein (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 3559/5763, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Cretomegahexura.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Cretomegahexura platnicki Eskov and Zonshtein p. 330 figs. 10-16 |
| 2013 | Cretomegahexura platnicki Dunlop et al. p. 127 |
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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.
†Cretomegahexura platnicki Eskov and Zonshtein 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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