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Melbournopterus crossotus
Taxonomy
Melbournopterus crossotus was named by Caster and Kjellesvig-Waering (1953). Its type specimen is UM 1988-89, a cephalon/head (prosoma), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Locality 41, Heathcote, which is in a Gorstian marine siltstone in the Yan Yean Formation of Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Melbournopterus crossotus Caster and Kjellesvig-Waering p. 154 figs. Pl 20, figs 1,2; text-figs 1,2 |
| 2013 | Melbournopterus crossotus Lamsdell et al. p. 345 fig. 1,2A |
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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.
†Melbournopterus crossotus Caster and Kjellesvig-Waering 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Williams et al. 1996, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||