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Kennatherium shirense
Taxonomy
Kennatherium shirensis was named by Mellett and Szalay (1968). Its type specimen is AMNH 26295, a mandible (Posterior part of mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chimney Butte, North Mesa, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Ulan Shireh Formation of Mongolia.
It was corrected as Kennatherium shirense by Lopatin (2006).
It was corrected as Kennatherium shirense by Lopatin (2006).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1968 | Kennatherium shirensis Mellett and Szalay |
| 2006 | Kennatherium shirense Lopatin |
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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.
†Kennatherium shirense Mellett and Szalay 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Middle Eocene or 48.07000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | Mongolia (Ovorhangai) | Kennatherium shirensis (93596) | |
| Middle Eocene | Mongolia | Kennatherium shirensis (type locality: 127656) |