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Acdestoides praecursor
Taxonomy
Callomenus praecursor was named by Loomis (1914). Its type specimen is AC 3020, a mandible (dentary with m2 (originally also p3 and m1)), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cabeza Blanca, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial shale/claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Acdestoides.
It was recombined as Palaeothentes praecursor by Patterson and Marshall (1978); it was recombined as Acdestoides praecursor by Bown and Fleagle (1993).
It was recombined as Palaeothentes praecursor by Patterson and Marshall (1978); it was recombined as Acdestoides praecursor by Bown and Fleagle (1993).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1914 | Callomenus praecursor Loomis p. 223 |
| 1978 | Palaeothentes praecursor Patterson and Marshall |
| 1993 | Acdestoides praecursor Bown and Fleagle |
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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.
†Acdestoides praecursor Loomis 1914
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hopson 1973, Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||