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Mutpuracinus archibaldi
Taxonomy
Mutpuracinus archibaldi was named by Murray and Megirian (2000). Its type specimen is NTM P907-3, a maxilla (left maxilla with P2-M4), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Blast Site, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in the Camfield Beds Formation of Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Mutpuracinus archibaldi Murray and Megirian p. 147 |
| 2019 | Mutpuracinus archibaldi Rovinsky et al. p. 9 |
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†Mutpuracinus archibaldi Murray and Megirian 2000
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. S. Rovinsky et al. 2019 | Mutpuracinus archibaldi differs from Dasyuridae in: elongate snout; retention of three premolars; overall reduction of stylar crest and stylar cusps; reduction of paracones; widened angle of the centrocrista; reduction of protocones, conules, and distal cingulae; presence of a carnassial notch in the cristid obliqua (referred to as the prehypocristid by Murray & Megirian (2006a); uniform reduction of the metaconids; reduction of the entoconid. Differs from Badjcinus turnbulli, Nimbacinus dicksoni, and Thylacinus cynocephalus in: full enclosure of the petrosal and alisphenoid hypotympanic sinuses by the alisphenoid tympanic wing; posterior process of the maxillae narrow unlike Thylacinus cynocephalus in which the posterior maxillary processes flare widely, interposing the lacrimals, and nasals. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Clemens 1979, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: Middle Miocene or 15.98000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Mutpuracinus archibaldi (type locality: 92839) |