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Metacryphaeus kegeli
Taxonomy
Metacryphaeus kegeli was named by Carvalho et al. (1997) [= Asteropyge sp. Kegel, 1953.
= Metacryphaeus sp. Melo, 1988: 681, pl. 25, figs. 9-15.]. Its type specimen is DNPM N.6133-I, a cephalon/head, and it is a mold. Its type locality is 11 km south of Pimenteiras, which is in an Eifelian marine sandstone/siltstone in the Pimenteira Formation of Brazil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Metacryphaeus kegeli Carvalho et al. pp. 4 - 6 figs. 2A-H |
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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.
†Metacryphaeus kegeli Carvalho et al. 1997
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. G. P. Carvalho et al. 1997 | A Metacryphaeus with the frontal glabellar lobe steeply inclined anteromedially; cephalic anterior margin and frontal lobe of gentle even convexity; broad, deep cephalic axial furrows; small eyes well offset laterally from axial furrows; librigena steeply inclined. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subo = suborder, c = class | |||||
| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Aberhan et al. 2004, Fortey and Owens 1999 | |||||