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Meiolania mackayi
Taxonomy
Meiolania mackayi was named by Anderson (1925). Its type specimen is AM F17720, a partial skull (left B horn core), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Walpole Island, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial phosphorite in New Caledonia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Meiolania mackayi Anderson p. 224 |
| 2015 | Meiolania mackayi Rhodin et al. |
| 2015 | Meiolania mackayi Sterli p. 38 |
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†Meiolania mackayi Anderson 1925
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Sterli 2015 | Meiolania mackayi is diagnosed as a meiolaniid by the presence of horns in the squamosal and as a member of the clade Meiolania by the presence of recurved B horn cores. Meiolania mackayi is differentiated from Me. platyceps by the presence of a narrower horn core B, more gracile limb bones and a 30% smaller relative size. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Sterli 2015, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | New Caledonia (Isle of Pines) | Meiolania mackayi (type locality: 185433) |