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Ctenomys cotocaensis
Taxonomy
Ctenomys cotocaensis was named by Azurduy (2005). Its type specimen is PAL-5400, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Ctenomys cotocaensis Azurduy p. 32 figs. Fig. 1 |
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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.
†Ctenomys cotocaensis Azurduy 2005
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Azurduy 2005 | Cráneo de la envergadura del actual Ctenomys conoveri, huesos frontales conspicuamente elevados, incisivos anchos, notoriamente procumbentes y provistos de un dilatado reborde marginal. Longitud del cráneo mayor a 8 cm. Molares y p4 anchos con la forma semilunar (sensu Verzi, 2002), característica de Ctenomys. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Fernández et al. 2000, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | Bolivia (Santa Cruz) | Ctenomys cotocaensis (142417) |