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Dukecynus magnus
Discussion
Holotype: IGM 251149; heavily cracked and deformed partial skull, anterior fragment of the left horizontal ramus, almost complete right mandible with partial dentition badly preserved, isolated m2, m4, and M3, and associated cranial and postcranial fragments, most of them poorly preserved.
Etymology: Magnus, in reference to it being the largest known species of Prothylacyninae
Taxonomy
Dukecynus magnus was named by Goin (1997). Its type specimen is IGM 251149, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Dukecynus magnus Goin |
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†Dukecynus magnus Goin 1997
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| F. J. Goin 1997 | Differs from all other prothylacynines in the following combination of characters: elongated and very narrow rostrum; mandibular symphysis fused but not completely coossified; lower molars lack entoconid, m1-3 with moderately reduced talonids; upper molars with reduced paracone, well developed metacrista, protocone apparently reduced and set anterolingually, and paracrista ending at the anterolabial edge of the tooth. |