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Leptoptilos titan
Taxonomy
Leptoptilos titan was named by Wetmore (1940) [Type specimen presumably lost.]. Its type specimen is Mining and Geological Survey, Department of the Netherlands Indies 3313, a limb element (tarso-metatarsus), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Watoealang 1, which is in a Pleistocene fluvial siliciclastic in Indonesia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1940 | Leptoptilos titan Wetmore p. 447 |
| 2010 | Leptoptilos titan Meijer and Awe Due p. 710 |
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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.
†Leptoptilos titan Wetmore 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Witmer and Rose 1991, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Indonesia (Java) | Leptoptilos titan (type locality: 74620) |