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Meiolania brevicollis
Taxonomy
Meiolania brevicollis was named by Megirian (1992). Its type specimen is NTM P 87103-2, a partial skull (right squamosal), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Blast Site, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in the Camfield Beds Formation of Australia.
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†Meiolania brevicollis Megirian 1992
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. Megirian 1992 | Meiolaniid with prominent, recurved 'B' horn-core projecting from the posterolateral skull margin; 'B' horn-core projecting posteriorly at a lower angle than M. platyceps, with a width to length ratio 20 % less than the most slender M. mackayi specimen, and about 30% less than the most slender examples of M. platyceps ; 'A' hemcore vestigial; body size (linear measurements) at least 10% larger than the largest known examples of M. platyceps, substantially larger than M. mackayi; cervical vertebrae proportionally shorter, higher and narrower than known M. platyceps, distinct ventral keel on the centra of cervicals 5 and 6, neural process of cervical 2 inflated and rising high over the prezygapophyses; posterodorsal margin of the orbit fiat with a small, but distinct, postorbital crest; cranium flatter than M. platyceps; median pit of the premaxillary triturating surface confluent with the groove separating the intermediate and labial triturating ridges. | |
| J. Sterli 2015 | Meiolania brevicollis is diagnosed as a meiolaniid by the presence of horns in the squamosal. Meiolania brevicollis is differentiated from Me. platyceps by having a flatter skull, posteriorly projecting horn core B and a vestigial scute A, presence of a small postorbital crest in the posterodorsal margin of the flat orbit, presence of relatively longer, lower and wider cervical vertebrae, presence of a relatively short, narrow and high neural spine of the axis and a distinct ventral keel on cervical centra 5 and 6 (Megirian 1992). Meiolania brevicollis is much bigger than Me. mackayi and it has a slender horn core B (Megirian 1992). |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Sterli 2015, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Middle Miocene or 15.97000 to 11.60800 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Meiolania brevicollis (type locality: 92839) |