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Eocaiman palaeocenicus
Taxonomy
Eocaiman palaeocenicus was named by Bona (2007). Its type specimen is MPEF-PV 1933, a mandible (Nearly complete left mandible and partial right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is El Gauchito, which is in a Danian terrestrial horizon in the Salamanca Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2007 | Eocaiman palaeocenicus Bona |
2013 | Eocaiman palaeocenicus Pinheiro et al. |
2020 | Eocaiman palaeocenicus Godoy et al. |
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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.
†Eocaiman palaeocenicus Bona 2007
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Diagnosis
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P. Bona 2007 | It differs from E. cavernensis in having: a robust lower jaw; external and internal margins of the dentary anteriorly divergent between alveoli 4º and 12º in dorsal view, an external mandibular fenestra with a rounded posterior border and the angular lower than the surangular (posteriorly to the external mandibular fenestra in lateral view). |
Measurements
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Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015 |