Mecochirus longimanatus
Mecochirus longimanatus is an extinct species of lobster-like decapod crustacean from the Jurassic of Europe. The Maxberg Specimen of Archaeopteryx was initially assigned to Mechocirus longimanatus before it was realised that it belonged to Archaeopteryx lithographica.[2]
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| Fossil from the Solnhofen limestones (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) | |
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| Species: | †M. longimanatus |
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| †Mecochirus longimanatus Schlotheim, 1822 | |
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Mecochirus longimanus [1] | |
References
- Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann & Iuliana Lazǎr (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12.
- Heller, F. (1960). "Der dritte Archaeopteryx-Fund aus den Solnhofener Plattenkalken des oberen Malm Frankens". Journal für Ornithologie. 101 (1–2): 7–28. doi:10.1007/bf01670630. S2CID 44286412.
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