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Saturninia
Taxonomy
Saturninia was named by Stehlin (1940). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Plesiosoricidae by Van Valen (1967), Carroll (1988); to Nyctitheriidae by Rose and Gingerich (1987), Hooker (1996); and to Nyctitheriinae by Crochet (1974), Hooker (1986), Lopatin (2006), Ziegler (2007).
It was assigned to Plesiosoricidae by Van Valen (1967), Carroll (1988); to Nyctitheriidae by Rose and Gingerich (1987), Hooker (1996); and to Nyctitheriinae by Crochet (1974), Hooker (1986), Lopatin (2006), Ziegler (2007).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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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.
G. †Saturninia Stehlin 1940
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†Saturninia beata Crochet 1974
†Saturninia carbonum Sigé and Storch 2001
†Saturninia gracilis Stehlin 1940
†Saturninia intermedia Sigé 1976
†Saturninia mamertensis Sigé 1976
†Saturninia tuberi Crochet 1995
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J.-Y. Crochet 1974 | Nyctitheriinae (au sens de P. Robinson, 1968) dont la p3 est petite par rapport à p4. Cette dernìère n'a pas achevé sa molarisation. Le talonide des molaires est bas et creusé en bassin. L'hypoconulide est faible, l'entoconide en forme de crête. Le talonide de m3 est allongé. Les molaires supérieures sont de tpe tri-tuberculaire avec un hypocône dégagée du reste de la dent. Formule dentaire: I ?/3, C ?/1, P ?/4, M 3/3 |