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Kombuisia frerensis
Taxonomy
Kombuisia frerensis was named by Hotton (1974). Its type specimen is BP/1/430 (= USNM 22936), a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lady Frere Commonage, which is in an Anisian terrestrial horizon in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Kombuisia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1974 | Kombuisia frerensis Hotton p. 158 figs. 1, Pl. 1-2 |
| 2007 | Kombuisia frerensis Fröbisch |
| 2011 | Kombuisia frerensis Fröbisch and Reisz |
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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.
†Kombuisia frerensis Hotton 1974
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Fröbisch 2007 | Edentulous kingoriid dicynodont autapomorphic in its possession of the following characters: absence of a pineal foramen, an inverted triangular shape of the interparietal bone, lack of fusion of articular and prearticular bones, and presence of an elongate, slender parietal posterolateral process that extends onto the occipital edge of the skull roof. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983 | |||||