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Orycteropus abundulafus
Taxonomy
Orycteropus abundulafus was named by Lehmann et al. (2005). Its type specimen is KB03-97-214, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is KB3, Kossom Bougoudi, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene lacustrine sandstone in Chad.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann et al. p. 110 figs. Fig. 1-9, 11 |
| 2006 | Orycteropus abundulafus Lehman et al. p. 696 |
| 2007 | Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann p. 182 |
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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.
†Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann et al. 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lehmann et al. 2005, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 11.63000 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Chad | Orycteropus sp. (type locality: 24181) |