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Silicamys cingulatus
Taxonomy
Silicamys cingulatus was named by Pickford et al. (2008). Its type specimen is SN 25'08, a tooth (right m/3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Silica North, which is in a Bartonian karst limestone in Namibia. It is the type species of Silicamys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2008 | Silicamys cingulatus Pickford et al. p. 489 figs. Figure 19 |
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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.
†Silicamys cingulatus Pickford et al. 2008
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||