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Sasawatsu mahaynaq
Taxonomy
Sasawatsu mahaynaq was named by Goin and Candela (2004) [n. sp.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Rosa (LACM Loc. 6289), which is in a Rupelian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Yahuarango Formation of Peru. It is the type species of Sasawatsu.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Sasawatsu mahaynaq Goin and Candela |
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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.
†Sasawatsu mahaynaq Goin and Candela 2004
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. J. Goin and A. M. Candela 2004 | Sasawatsu mahaynaq differs from the remaining species of Paucituberculata in the following combination of features: molars large and low-crowned; M1 only moderately larger than M2; lower molars with distinct, although very reduced, paraconid, which is lingual and close to, but not fused with, metaconid; upper molars with paracone and metacone very close to StB and StD, respectively, and much smaller than the latter; stylar cusps not labiolingually compressed. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||