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Abdounia mesetae
Taxonomy
Abdounia mesetae was named by Engelbrecht et al. (2017). Its type specimen is NRM-PZ P15808, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is IAA 1/90, which is in a Ypresian estuary/bay horizon in the La Meseta Formation of Antarctica.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Abdounia mesetae Engelbrecht et al. p. 18 figs. Fig. 14A–R |
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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.
†Abdounia mesetae Engelbrecht et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Engelbrecht et al. 2017 | Species of Abdounia differing from all other spe- cies of this genus by the following combination of characters: principal cusp blade-shaped; labial and lingual crown faces smooth; one pair of low and broad lateral cusplets in anterior teeth; in upper anterior teeth, no lateral cusplets present; in upper lateral teeth, mesial cusplet very reduced; distal cusplet broad and rather low; mesial cusplet reduced in lower lateral teeth; one or two distal cusplets; lingual protuberance well developed in upper teeth and less developed in lower teeth; and low labial root face. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023 | |||||