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Nambashag microglaucus
Taxonomy
Nambashag microglaucus was named by Worthy (2011). Its type specimen is SAM P.32584, a limb element (right femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Billeroo Creek Site 2, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine claystone/siltstone in the Namba Formation of Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2011 | Nambashag microglaucus Worthy p. 292 figs. Fig. 3 |
| 2020 | Nambashag microglaucus Worthy and Nguyen p. 91 |
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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.
†Nambashag microglaucus Worthy 2011
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. H. Worthy 2011 | A species of Nambashag with femur about 30% shorter than that of Na. billerooensis, and smaller than all Microcarbo species with the humeral proc. supracondylaris dorsalis relatively large with its tip proximal to the condylus dorsalis, the tuber. supra- condylare ventrale rotated ventrally, and on the femur, the sulcus for the M. flexor hallicus longus extending into the cranial half of craniocaudal femur depth. |
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Nambashag microglaucus (136534 type locality: 215782) |