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Taxonomy
Microcavia aua was named by Mones and Castiglioni (1979). Its type specimen is 683 MNHN-DP, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Playa Pascual, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Uruguay.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1979 | Microcavia aua Mones and Castiglioni p. 78 fig. 3 |
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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.
†Microcavia aua Mones and Castiglioni 1979
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Uruguay (San José) | Microcavia aua (type locality: 139913) |