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Sula brandi
Taxonomy
Sula brandi was named by Stucchi et al. (2016). Its type specimen is MUSM 2497, a partial skull (partial neurocranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerro Colorado (Pisco, Miocene), which is in a Tortonian coastal horizon in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2016 | Sula brandi Stucchi et al. p. 419 figs. Fig. 2 |
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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.
†Sula brandi Stucchi et al. 2016
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Stucchi et al. 2016 | Sula with braincase length similar to those of medium-sized boobies S. variegata and S. leucogaster but flattened, being the flattest among sulids; wide naso-frontal hinge, greater laterofacial angle, smaller cerebellar dome, and narrow sagittal crest. Shallow salt gland fossae and shal- low postorbital fossae, as occurs in Morus and Papasula, but in contrast to the deep condition found in all other Sula species. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983 | |||||