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Cambaylophus
Taxonomy
Cambaylophus was named by Kapur and Bajpai (2015). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Tapiroidea by Kapur and Bajpai (2015).
It was assigned to Tapiroidea by Kapur and Bajpai (2015).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2015 | Cambaylophus Kapur and Bajpai |
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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.
G. †Cambaylophus Kapur and Bajpai 2015
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†Cambaylophus vastanensis Kapur and Bajpai 2015
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| V. V. Kapur and S. Bajpai 2015 | Small tapiromorph with squarish upper molars, no diastema between the upper deciduous premolars and molars; upper molars longer than wide, weakly lophodont and with prominent paracone, metacone, protocone and hypocone; posterior cusps closer to each other as compared to the anterior cusps; buccal cusps higher than the lingual cusps with the paracone highest and hypocone lowest; protocone and hypocone widely separated and not connected by any crest; protoloph joins the anterolingual base of the paracone while the metaloph joins the anterolingual base of the metacone; paraconule absent; metaconule weak; parastyle anteroposteriorly compressed, small, low, lingually shifted and located anterior to paracone; buccal cingulum continuous; lingual cingulum discontinuous. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Colbert and Schoch 1998 | |||||