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Webbochoerus macfaddeni
Taxonomy
Webbochoerus macfaddeni was named by Prothero (2021). Its type specimen is UF 29001 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Love Bone Bed, which is in a Clarendonian marginal marine horizon in the Alachua Formation of Florida. It is the type species of Webbochoerus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Webbochoerus macfaddeni Prothero p. 37 |
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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.
†Webbochoerus macfaddeni Prothero 2021
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. R. Prothero 2021 | Same as for genus. [Zygomatic wing fan-like and strongly dorsallycurved; shallow rostral muscle fossa, which is beneath theanterior edge of the zygomatic wing; glenoid fossa does notextend far laterally to tympanic process; maxilla does notcontact lateral edge of orbitosphenoid bulla; broad auditorybulla; suprapalatine inflation with large open, non-cancelloussinuses; shallow dorsal palatine sulcus; premaxilla over 50 mm long, longer than in any other tayassuines; transversely elongate occipital condyles; moderately long (40-50 mm) upper diastema between canines and premolars; cheek teeth not broad and bulbous as in Macrogenis; P2 with protocone, metacone; P3-4 submolariform; long rostrum, and upper and lower diastemata moderately long (50-55 mm); cl lacks labial ridges; p2 has a small metaconid; p3-4 submolariform.] |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Clarendonian or 12.50000 to 9.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | Clarendonian peccary sp. (type locality: 18554) |