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Kapes amaenus
Taxonomy
Kapes amaenus was named by Ivakhnenko (1975). Its type specimen is PIN 3361/2, a mandible (right dentary), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zheshart, which is in an Olenekian terrestrial horizon in the Yarenskian Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Kapes.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1975 | Kapes amaenus Ivakhnenko p. 90 fig. 2 |
| 1976 | Kapes amaenus Ivakhnenko p. 87 |
| 1991 | Kapes amaenus Novikov p. 78 figs. 3a, b |
| 2000 | Kapes amaenus Spencer and Benton p. 169 figs. 9.9A, B |
| 2002 | Kapes amaenus Spencer and Storrs |
| 2008 | Kapes amaenus Ivakhnenko p. 58 |
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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.
†Kapes amaenus Ivakhnenko 1975
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| I. V. Novikov 1991 | Translated: [Length of dentary tooth row 13-14 mm. Teeth are close together. Maximum breadth of molariforms at half of height in the anterior ones and within lower third in the posterior ones. Apices in close lateral distance. The blunt ridge in between has a third of the maximum breadth of the tooth. Ratio between lenght of tooth row (a) to maximum height of dentary (c) is 3.1. Largest molariform is about as high as dentary bone.] |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||