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Cookeroo bulwidarri
Taxonomy
Cookeroo bulwidarri was named by Butler et al. (2016). Its type specimen is QM F19798, a partial skull (partial adult skull, slightly warped, with left and right I1–3 alveoli, C1 alveoli, P3, and M1–4), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is White Hunter Site, which is in a Chattian terrestrial horizon in the Carl Creek Limestone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Cookeroo.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2016 | Cookeroo bulwidarri Butler et al. p. 5 fig. 1 |
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†Cookeroo bulwidarri Butler et al. 2016
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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K. Butler et al. 2016 | This species differs from Cookeroo hortu- sensis in having the following combination of features: upper molars having distinct contact between the postparacrista and premetacrista forming a centrocrista; P3 with eight cusps and associated transcristae; poorly developed jugal crest; upper cheekteeth that are not buccally convex in the occlusal plane; less developed basioccipital crest; and more cuspate upper molars. |
Measurements
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Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
References: Lillegraven 1979, Kiessling 2004, Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988 |