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Mercata festira
Taxonomy
Mercata festira was named by Lin (1986). Its type specimen is NIGP 70072, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is KHG 201, Xiwan coal mine, Hezhou City, which is in a Toarcian terrestrial mudstone in the Shiti Formation of China. It is the type species of Mercata.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Mercata festira Lin p. 79 figs. Pl 15, fig 4; text-fig 77 |
| 2011 | Mercata festira Chang et al. p. 43 |
| 2011 | Mercata festira Dong et al. p. 486 figs. 4.2, 5.1-5.3 |
| 2012 | Mercata festira Ponomarenko et al. p. 481 figs. Pl 1, fig I; text-fig 2A |
| 2020 | Mercata festira Kundrata et al. p. 18 |
| 2021 | Mercata festira Kundrata et al. p. 72 |
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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.
†Mercata festira Lin 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||