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Blanus mendezi
Taxonomy
Blanus mendezi was named by Bolet et al. (2014). Its type specimen is IPS60464, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Abocador de Can Mata C8-A4, which is in a Miocene alluvial fan mudstone in Spain.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Blanus mendezi Bolet et al. pp. 1-16 figs. 1-4 |
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†Blanus mendezi Bolet et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Bolet et al. 2014 | Regarding extinct taxa, the new species differs from B. antiquus in the larger size and more heterodont dentition (greater variability in the height and robustness of the teeth); and from B. gracilis, in the much larger size, the more robust tooth-bearing bones and teeth, and the more closely packed teeth. The new species also differs from all extant Blanus spp. in the larger size and – as far as it can be ascertained for those species for which cranial osteology is known (B. cinereus and B. strauchi) – in the longer nasal process of the premaxilla, the relatively longer frontals compared to the rest of the skull, the more straighter suture between the frontals, the more developed frontal articular facet for the maxilla and prefrontal, and the presence of a longer and posterodorsally directed maxillary orbital process. Additionally, the new species further differs from B. strauchi in the less protruding snout lacking a ventrally-projected proximal tip of the premaxilla, as well as in the stouter teeth; and from both B. cinereus and B. strauchi, in the stronger interdigitation of the frontoparietal suture. The paracotylar tubercles of the cervical and trunk vertebrae are unknown in the rest of Blanus spp., but a similar structure might be present in B. gracilis. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Pianka and Vitt 2003 | |||||
Age range: Middle Miocene or 15.98000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Miocene | Spain (Catalonia) | Blanus mendezi (type locality: 174064) |