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Pseudastur macrocephalus
Taxonomy
Pseudastur macrocephalus was named by Mayr (1998). Its type specimen is WDC-C-MG 94, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Messel, which is in a MP 11 lacustrine shale in the Messel Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Pseudastur.
Synonymy list
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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.
†Pseudastur macrocephalus Mayr 1998
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Diagnosis
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| G. Mayr 1998 | The(asyetunnamed)genus to which the Lower Eocene species "Primobucco" olsoni belongs differs from Pseudastur n. g. in the absence of characters (1) and (2) mentioned above (diagnosis of Pseudastur),in the relativelyshorterulna and longertibiotarsus (tab. 1), and in the wider furcula. |
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||