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Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae
Taxonomy
Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae was named by MacPhee (1994). Its type specimen is MNHNP 327 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ampasambazimba, which is in a Pleistocene/Holocene mire/swamp horizon in Madagascar.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae MacPhee p. 32 figs. Fig. 5 |
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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.
†Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae MacPhee 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Madagascar | Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae (type locality: 95824) |