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Allodesmus uraiporensis
Taxonomy
Allodesmus uraiporensis was named by Tonomori et al. (2018). Its type specimen is AMP 25, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Okoppezawa River, which is in a Langhian marine sandstone in the Okoppezawa Formation of Japan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2018 | Allodesmus uraiporensis Tonomori et al. |
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†Allodesmus uraiporensis Tonomori et al. 2018
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. Tonomori et al. 2018 | Allodesmus uraiporensis sp. nov. is distinguished from all other Allodesmus by having the palatine fissure (incisive foramen) that is located anterior to the canine (character 7 : 1) and an anteriorly located supraorbital process of the frontal (character 20 : 0), a developed peroneal tubercle of the calcaneum (character 98 : 1); from Al. kernensis, Al. sinanoensis Al. demerei and Al. naorai by having rounded infraorbital foramen (character 9 : 0); from Al. naorai by having M2 that is smaller than premolars (character 86 : 0); from Al. kernensis, Al. sinanoensis and Al. demerei by having a developed but not laterally exaggerated prenarial shelf (character 1:1) and a flat palate (character 12:0), posteriorly very wide palatal margins of the maxilla (character 13 : 2); from Al. packard by having the smaller size of M2 than premolars (character 86 : 0) and the small supraorbital process of the frontal (character 19 : 0).
Holotype. AMP 25: partial skeleton of an adult male individual [22,23]; left half of the cranium, cervical vertebrae 5–7, thoracic vertebrae 6–8 and 11–15, lumbar vertebrae 1–4, sacrum, caudal vertebrae 1–8 and two of uncertain positions, three sternebrae (uncertain position), left ribs 1 and 4–15, right ribs 1–14, left scapula, left humerus, middle phalanx of manus (uncertain position), pelves, femora, patellae, tibiae, fibulae, astragali, calcanei, right cuboid, naviculars, entocuneiforms, mesocuneiforms, ectocuneiforms, left metatarsals 1 and 5, right metatarsals 1 and 3–5, a proximal phalanx of pes (uncertain position), two middle phalanges of pes (uncertain positions) (figure 2). |
Measurements
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| References: Gingerich 2003, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||