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Uruguaytherium beaulieui
Discussion
Holotype: no number. Left mandibular ramus with the roots of p4 and m1, and the last two molars very well-preserved.
Locality: The specimen was found in Uruguay, department of Rio Negro. No stratigraphic or geological information is known for the specimen.
Etymology: in honor to Sra. Beaulieu, who gave the fossil to L. Kraglievich.
Taxonomy
Uruguaytherium beaulieui was named by Kraglievich (1928). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Lucía Basin, which is in a Deseadan fluvial sandstone in the Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay. It is the type species of Uruguaytherium.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1928 | Uruguaytherium beaulieui Kraglievich |
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†Uruguaytherium beaulieui Kraglievich 1928
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| L. Kraglievich 1928 | Lower molars lacking the perpendicular sulcus on the buccal side (Hypoflexid). |
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| Mandible height | 2 | 95.9 | 86.0 | 107.0 | 96.5 | 14.8 | |
| lower m2 height | 1 | 37.5 | - | - | - | - | |
| lower m3 height | 1 | 34.0 | - | - | - | - |
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996 | |||||