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Obergfellia occidentalis
Taxonomy
Obergfellia occidentalis was named by Cooper et al. (2014). Its type specimen is H-GSP 1981, a mandible (mandibles with left p1-m3 and right p4- m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is H-GSP 62, which is in a Lutetian coarse channel fill conglomerate in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Obergfellia occidentalis Cooper et al. p. 7 |
| 2020 | Obergfellia occidentalis Rose et al. p. 18 figs. Table 4 |
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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.
†Obergfellia occidentalis Cooper et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. N. Cooper et al. 2014 | Differs from other anthracobunids in exhibiting the following combination of features: (i) lower molars broad, (ii) lower m3 short, and (iii) angular process of the mandible long but shorter than that of Anthracobune. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||