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Quebradahondomys potosiensis
Taxonomy
Quebradahondomys potosiensis was named by Croft et al. (2011). Its type specimen is UATF-V-001030, a mandible (Right dentary bearing m1-m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Quebradahondomys.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2011 | Quebradahondomys potosiensis Croft et al. pp. 258-259 figs. 3d, 10, 11a |
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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.
†Quebradahondomys potosiensis Croft et al. 2011
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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D. A. Croft et al. 2011 | Quebradahondomys differs from Spaniomys Ameghino, 1877, in having trilophodont molars (tetralophodont in Spaniomys). It differs from Maruchito Vucetich et al., 1993, in its straighter, less undulating lophids, shallower and medially-directed hypoflexids, and narrower buccal lophids. Quebradahondomys differs from Stichomys Ameghino, 1887, Prostichomys Kramarz, 2001, Xylechimys Patterson and Pascual, 1968, and Deseadomys Wood and Patterson, 1959, in its lack of an anterofossettid and its more transverse lophids. It further differs from Stichomys in having a hypoflexid that is less penetrating and proportionally wider lingually, and in m3 being the largest tooth in the molar series (it is the smallest in Stichomys). Quebradahondomys resembles Adelphomys Ameghino, 1887, in having the hypoflexid and metaflexid separated only by a very narrow isthmus, but in Quebradahondomys the hypoflexid is shallower, the lophids are more transverse, and the posterolophid is anteroposteriorly thicker. Quebradahondomys lacks the confluence of the hypoflexid and mesoflexid present in Paradelphomys Patterson and Pascual, 1968. The molars of Ricardomys Walton, 1990, are smaller, proportionately narrower, and have less penetrating hypoflexids than Quebradahondomys. |
Measurements
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Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002 |