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Magdalenabradys

Osteichthyes - Mylodontidae

Taxonomy

Magdalenabradys was named by Rincón and McDonald (2020). Its type is Pseudoprepotherium confusum.

It was assigned to Mylodontidae by Rincón and McDonald (2020).

Species

M. confusum, M. kolossiaia

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2020	Magdalenabradys Rincón and McDonald

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Americatheria
—	Xenarthra	()
infraorder	Pilosa	Flower 1883
—	Folivora
class	Eufolivora	Delsuc et al. 2001
family	Mylodontidae	Ameghino 1889
genus	Magdalenabradys

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. †Magdalenabradys Rincón and McDonald 2020

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†Magdalenabradys confusum Hirschfeld 1985

†Magdalenabradys kolossiaia Rincón and McDonald 2020

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
Astragalus height	10	34.3	26.8	43.3	34.9	8.10
Astragalus diameter	10	73.7	57.0	86.4	81.6	13.8
Calcaneum diameter	2	73.1	60.3	88.6	74.4	20.0
Cuboid diameter	3	47.1	43.3	53.5	45.1	5.44
Femur height	1	134.5	-	-	-	-
Femur height	2	112.4	103.2	122.4	112.8	13.6
Femur Head diameter	3	89.1	71.9	101.0	97.5	15.9
Fibula diameter	4	21.5	16.5	27.3	21.8	4.70
Humerus head diameter	2	63.6	61.0	66.4	63.7	3.82
Jaw height	1	57.0	-	-	-	-
Lunar height	1	37.7	-	-	-	-
Metacarpal II height	1	34.4	-	-	-	-
Metacarpal II height	1	31.2	-	-	-	-
Metacarpal II proximal end height	1	45.6	-	-	-	-
Metacarpal IV height	3	36.5	29.7	42.8	38.4	6.67
Metacarpal IV Proximal end height	1	46.4	-	-	-	-
Metacarpal IV proximal end height	2	43.0	38.7	47.8	43.2	6.43
Metatarsal III height	6	53.9	37.0	66.8	58.9	12.4
Metatarsal IV height	9	46.0	31.1	60.7	51.5	11.7
Radius proximal end diameter	2	55.7	45.5	68.1	56.8	16.0
Skull height	1	97.2	-	-	-	-
Tibia diameter	1	108.6	-	-	-	-
Tibia diameter	2	125.7	122.9	128.5	125.7	3.96
Tibia Proximal end diameter	1	136.4	-	-	-	-
Tibia distal end diameter	2	64.5	63.8	65.3	64.5	1.06
Unciform height	2	47.7	-	-	47.7	-
Unciform diameter	2	50.2	-	-	50.2	-
metacarpal IV Proximal end height	1	48.7	-	-	-	-

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

herbivoref

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-22 16:27:29

Modified:

2005-08-22 18:30:22

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Laventan or 11.63000 to 11.00000 Ma

Collections (41 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Laventan	13.8 - 11.0	Colombia (Huila)	Pseudoprepotherium confusum (12970 133648 133689 133693 134806 135348 136211 136233 140051 143792 145175 186606 186609 186610 186629 186662 186665 186669 186675 186679 186683 187078 187114 187116 187718 187721 187737 187945 187961 187962 187963 187964 187965 187966 187967 196807 196810)
Laventan	13.8 - 11.0	Colombia	Pseudoprepotherium confusum (13678 13680 13684)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Venezuela (Falcon)	M. kolossiaia (146452)