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Tendagurutherium dietrichi
Taxonomy
Tendagurutherium dietrichi was named by Heinrich (1998). Its type specimen is MB.Ma.46910, a maxilla (fragment of a right dentary with the last molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tendaguru quarry Ig, Kindope, which is in a Kimmeridgian channel lag siltstone in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Tendagurutherium dietrichi Heinrich pp. 274-280 figs. 3-7 |
| 2004 | Tendagurutherium dietrichi Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 404 |
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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.
†Tendagurutherium dietrichi Heinrich 1998
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. -D. Heinrich 1998 | Dentary with short angular process, projecting backward and downward, and directed slightly medially. Below the condylar process there is a distinct subcondylar groove with a central deepening. Lingual side of the dentary with internal (Meckelian) groove and coronoid bone. Dental foramen large, oval, and positioned far back. Trigonid of ultimate molar high, compressed anteroposteriorly, with three principal cusps and two anterior basal cusps. Trigonid dominated by protoconid; paraconid similar or equal in height to metaconid. Metaconid placed farther lingually than paraconid; protoconid slightly anterior to metaconid |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Luo et al. 2003, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian or 152.21000 to 149.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Tanzania (Lindi) | Tendagurutherium dietrichi (type locality: 47146) |