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Boleatherium praeludium
Taxonomy
Boleatherium praeludium was named by Vera et al. (2021). Its type specimen is MLP 90-III-5-165, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerro Boleadoras, which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian fluvial horizon in the Cerro Boleadoras Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Boleatherium.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2021 | Boleatherium praeludium Vera et al. |
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†Boleatherium praeludium Vera et al. 2021
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. Vera et al. 2021 | p1 is the longest of the premolars series, with a small but differentiable talonid (premolariform); p2 narrower than p1 and longer and narrower than p3 and p4, and differentiable from all of them; lingual trig- onid–talonid contact in p2, p3, p4 and m3 (no lingual sulcus); talonid longer than trigonid and variable pos- ition of isthmus from m1 to m2; talonid of m3 lacks labial sulcus; no distal fusion between tibia and fibula; contact between navicular and calcaneus; and three bones in the second tarsal row |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian - Langhian | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Boleatherium praeludium (type locality: 197691) |