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Notonycteris sucharadeus
Discussion
Etymology: souchos, Greek, crocodilian; arados, Greek, a rumbling in the bowels; -eus, Greek, doer, agent, maker of. Based on the possibility that IGM 252869 passed through the gut of a crocodilian
Taxonomy
Notonycteris sucharadeus was named by Czaplewski et al. (2003). Its type specimen is IGM-KU 9305, a tooth (complete left m1 in small fragment of the dentary bone.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chepe site (La Venta) Kyoto University, which is in a Laventan terrestrial horizon in the Villavieja Formation of Colombia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Notonycteris sucharadeus Czaplewski et al. |
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†Notonycteris sucharadeus Czaplewski et al. 2003
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| N. J. Czaplewski et al. 2003 | A Notonycteris smaller than Notonycteris
magdalenensis, the only other species of the genus. Dimensions of the m1 in N. sucharadeus are about 77% to 84% of those in N. magdalenensis; measurements of the m2 are about 71% to 76% of those in N. magdalenensis. |