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Taxonomy
Comtia bernardi was named by Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014). Its type specimen is ISE-M, UM2 SPV190, a tooth (isolated right M1-2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Saint-Privat-des-Vieux, which is in a MP 26 mire/swamp mudstone/limestone in France. It is the type species of Comtia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Comtia bernardi Vianey-Liaud et al. pp. 602-604 fig. 15A |
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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.
†Comtia bernardi Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014 | "Squirrel of large size (M1-2: L × w = 3.4 × 4.02 mm); lingual flank of the tooth higher than the labial one. Cusps high and acute (parastyle, paracone, mesostyle, metacone, small hypocone and protocone); one small paraconule, two metaconules stronger than the paraconule; straight protoloph and metaloph higher than the anterior and posterior cinguli; enamel slightly wrinkled all along the cusps and lophs as well as in the basins. Differs from:
– Oligopetes Heissig, 1979, in the absence of postparac- rista connected to the mesostyle and the well marked paraconule and metaconules; – Paracitellus Dehm, 1950, in the connection of the paraloph and metaloph to the protocone, and in the absence of labial connection between parastyle-paracone- mesostyle-metacone and posteroloph; – Miopetaurista Kretzoi, 1962, or Forsythia Mein, 1970, in its non-crescentic cusps; – Blackia Mein, 1970, in the presence of conules, and the less wrinkled enamel." |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||