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Kowalskia zhengi
Taxonomy
Kowalskia zhengi was named by Qiu and Storch (2000). Its type specimen is IVPP V11917, a maxilla (sin. with M1, M2), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Bilike, which is in a Pliocene lacustrine horizon in China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Kowalskia zhengi Qiu and Storch p. 193 figs. Pl. 8 fig. 11 |
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†Kowalskia zhengi Qiu and Storch 2000
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| Z. Qiu and G. Storch 2000 | Small Kowalskia species close to K. polonicus and K. neimengensis in size, but differs from K. polonica in the presence of a metaloph II on M1-2, and from K. neimengensis in having four-rooted M1 with more reduced labial spur of the anterolophule and lower frequency of the metaloph II. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Pliocene or 5.33300 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pliocene | China (Nei Mongol) | Kowalskia zhengi (type locality: 75300) |