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Pontolis kohnoi
Taxonomy
Pontolis kohnoi was named by Biewer et al. (2020). Its type specimen is LACM 118967, a partial skeleton (skull with associated mandibles and postcranial elements, including atlas, axis, an indeterminate cervical vertebra, several thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and cauda), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lambert Reservoir, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Capistrano Formation of California.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Pontolis kohnoi Biewer et al. figs. Figs. 23–26) |
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†Pontolis kohnoi Biewer et al. 2020
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| J. N. Biewer et al. 2020 | Pontolis kohnoi, sp. nov. differs from other species of Pontolis by having reduced to low frontal protuberances (c. 16[0]) and a single-rooted M1 (c. 77 [2]). It can be further differentiated from Po. barroni by a slender pterygoid strut (c. 13[0]) and by having postcanine teeth with large wear facets on their anterior and posterior
edges (c. 82[2]). It can be further differentiated from cf. Po. magnus by having a mandible with a straight ventral border (c. 45[0]), a mandibular condyle located slightly above the level of the tooth row (c. 47[0]), a medial shelf of the angular process (c. 49[1]), an anteroposteriorly short coronoid process (c. 50[0]), and lower postcanines with well-developed paraconid cusps (c. 66[0]). |