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Bardalestes hunco
Taxonomy
Bardalestes hunco was named by Goin et al. (2009). Its type specimen is LIEB-PV 1135, a maxilla (Fragment of left maxillary with M2–3, and roots and part of the crown of M4), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is La Barda, Paso del Sapo, which is in a Lutetian fluvial tuff in the Andesitas Huancache Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Bardalestes.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Bardalestes hunco Goin et al. p. 871 |
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†Bardalestes hunco Goin et al. 2009
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. J. Goin et al. 2009 | Differs from all other paucituberculatans in that the upper molars lack an enlarged, ‘hypoconelike’, metaconule; the paracone is less reduced; the paracone and the metacone are less twinned to StB and StC + StD, respectively; StB much larger than StC + StD. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973, Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||