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Parelasmotherium schansiense
Taxonomy
Parelasmotherium schansiense was named by Killgus (1923). It is not extant. It is the type species of Parelasmotherium.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1923 | Parelasmotherium schansiense Killgus |
| 2002 | Parelasmotherium schansiense Antoine et al. |
| 2019 | Parelasmotherium schansiense Kampouridis et al. p. 3 |
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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.
†Parelasmotherium schansiense Killgus 1923
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Kampouridis et al. 2019 | Large elasmotheriine with a unique combination of dental features separating it from all other elas- motheriines: large crochets on D4 and P4; well-established proto- cone and hypocone connection at any wear stage, unconstricted hypocone, presence of a ‘pseudometaloph,’ and prominent meta- cone and paracone folds on P4; strongly constricted hypocone and highly plicated enamel in the hypsodont M1 and M2. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available