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Peramus tenuirostris
Taxonomy
Peramus tenuirostris was named by Owen (1871). Its type specimen is BMNH 47742, a mandible (left mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Peramus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1871 | Peramus tenuirostris Owen |
| 1928 | Peramus tenuirostris Simpson p. 121 figs. pl. 8, figs 2-6 |
| 2004 | Peramus tenuirostris Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 402-404 |
| 2012 | Peramus tenuirostris Davis p. 793 figs. Figures 2, 3A–B, 4 |
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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.
†Peramus tenuirostris Owen 1871
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. M. Davis 2012 | Differs from Peramus dubius comb. nov. in larger size, greater relative depth of dentary, alveoli for p4 substantially larger than p3 and strong decreasing trend in molar size distally. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973, Luo et al. 2003, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Middle Berriasian or 141.00000 to 139.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Peramus tenuirostris (type locality: 72142) |