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Kiruwamaq chisu
Taxonomy
Kiruwamaq chisu 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 Kiruwamaq.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Kiruwamaq chisu 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.
†Kiruwamaq chisu Goin and Candela 2004
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. J. Goin and A. M. Candela 2004 | Kiruwamaq chisu differs from all other known South American ‘‘opossum- like’’ marsupials in the following combination of characters: very small size; reduced protocone; paracone much smaller, more labially oriented, and very close to the metacone; straight centrocrista; postmetacrista well developed; stylar shelf very wide only in its anterior half; StD very small, labially oriented and labiolingually compressed; preprotocrista connects continuously with anterior cingulum of tooth. |
Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979 | |||||