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Hypotaenidia vavauensis
Taxonomy
Hypotaenidia vavauensis was named by Worthy and Burley (2019). Its type specimen is NMNZ S.48358, a limb element (right tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2019 | Hypotaenidia vavauensis Worthy and Burley figs. Fig. 5 |
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†Hypotaenidia vavauensis Worthy and Burley 2019
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. H. Worthy and D. V. Burley 2019 | A flightless species of Hypotaenidia with leg bones larger and stouter than the largest known species, Hypotaenidia (= Nesoclopeus) woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889) extant in the Solomons, and Hypotaenidia poicilopterus (Hartlaub, 1866) extinct on Viti Levu, Fiji (see Table 14). The tarsometatarsus is about the same length as the femur, the tibiotarsus ~1.5 times longer than the tarsometatarsus, the width across the proximal articular surfaces ~1.13 times wider than the distal width, and with a relatively short crista fibularis (15% articular length). |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||