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Tombaatar sabuli
Taxonomy
Tombaatar sabuli was named by Rougier et al. (1997). Its type specimen is PSS-MAE 122, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ukhaa Tolgod (AMNH), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone/mudstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Tombaatar.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Tombaatar sabuli Rougier et al. p. 4 figs. 1-5 |
| 2004 | Tombaatar sabuli Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 254, 324 |
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†Tombaatar sabuli Rougier et al. 1997
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. W. Rougier et al. 1997 | Large size multituberculate, with palate length (measured from the posterior margin of the I2) of 30.4 mm and a M1-M2 length of 9.5 mm. Palatal torus is notably strong, more than in any other presently known multituberculate, with an elaborated, stout, crescent-shaped process that projects ventrally on either palatine (as in the weaker torus of Kryptobaatar). MI cusp formula (4:5:2) and size, differentiate Tombaatar from all Mongolian multituberculates. Skull of Tombaatar is similar in dimensions to those of Djadochtatherium matthewi (Simpson, 1925) and Catopsbaatar catopsaloides (Kielan-Jaworowska, 1974, 1994; Kielan-Jaworowska and Sloan, 1979), but differs from these taxa in having the 13 alveolus formed by both the premaxilla and maxilla; a slender, posteriorly tapering process of the premaxilla on the rostrum; a high skull with a deep orbit (flat rostrum, and palate wider and shorter in Djadochtatherium and Catopsbaatar); and a proportionately short and slender anterior process of the frontal on the skull roof (long and wide in Djadochtatherium, but not preserved in Catopsbaatar). P2 absent and rounded premaxillary-maxillary suture in rostrum of Tombaatar and Catopsbaatar (P2 present and suture not rounded in Djadochtatherium; suture rounded in Nemegtbaatar, Kryptobaatar, and Chulsanbaatar, but not in Sloanbaatar, Kamptobaatar, Ectypodus, or Lambdopsalis). Tombaatar and Djadochtatherium are distinguished from Catopsbaatar in having large P1 and P3 (?plesiomorphic) and MI with only two cusps on the lingual row which form a lobe in the posterior half of the molar of Tombaatar. Four lingual cusps cover the posterior two-thirds of the labial margin of the MI in Catopsbaatar. Some additional characters are present in other multituberculates but are rendered autapomorphies of Tombaatar by their distribution on the most parsimonious trees. These are: base of zygomatic arch dorsal or anterior to P3/P4 embrasure, incisive foramina of medium size and elongated, and posterior margin of palate medial to middle of M2. |
Measurements
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| Source: superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Mongolia (Omnogov Aimak) | Tombaatar sabuli (type locality: 37184) |