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Aethesia frangens
Taxonomy
Aethesia frangens was named by Hutchinson and Scanlon (2009). Its type specimen is South Australian Museum P43196, a mandible (partial left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Spoil heap from Wellington Caves, which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Australia. It is the type species of Aethesia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Aethesia frangens Hutchinson and Scanlon p. 140 figs. 1-2 |
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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.
†Aethesia frangens Hutchinson and Scanlon 2009
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Behler and King 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pliocene to the top of the Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pliocene - Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Aethesia frangens (type locality: 118343) |