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Xenorhinotherium bahiense
Taxonomy
Xenorhinotherium bahiense was named by Cartelle and Lessa (1988) [Diagnosis as for the genus by monotypy.]. Its type specimen is MCL-2644, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Toca dos Ossos, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Brazil. It is the type species of Xenorhinotherium.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Xenorhinotherium bahiense Cartelle and Lessa |
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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.
†Xenorhinotherium bahiense Cartelle and Lessa 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Cranium, orbital perpendicular diameter height | 1 | 63.0 |
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: MacFadden et al. 1996, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Brazil (Ceara) | Xenorhinotherium bahiense (236300) | |
| Pleistocene | Brazil (Alagoas) | Xenorhinotherium bahiense (230755) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | Brazil (Bahia) | Xenorhinotherium bahiense (type locality: 136498) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte) | Xenorhinotherium bahiense (148309) |