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Taxonomy
Mesosigara kryshtofovichi was named by Popov (1971). Its type specimen is PIN 324/2a, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bureya River (PIN collection 324), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in the Udurchukan Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Mesosigara.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1971 | Mesosigara kryshtofovichi Popov p. 129 figs. 82; Pl IV fig 4 |
| 1993 | Mesosigara kryshtofovici Nel and Paicheler p. 15 |
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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.
†Mesosigara kryshtofovichi Popov 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Russian Federation (Amur) | Mesosigara kryshtofovichi (type locality: 149317) |