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Platypittamys brachyodon
Taxonomy
Platypittamys brachyodon was named by Wood (1949). Its type specimen is AMNH 29600, a skeleton (skeleton with skull, jaws, and most of the other bones, badly compressed. The skull is dorsoventrally flattened.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Crater Lake Beds - Scarritt Pocket, which is in a Chattian crater lake conglomerate/sandstone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Platypittamys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1949 | Platypittamys brachyodon Wood |
| 1959 | Platypittamys brachyodon Wood and Patterson |
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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.
†Platypittamys brachyodon Wood 1949
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||