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Australocamelus orarius
Taxonomy
Australocamelus orarius was named by Patton (1969) [genotype]. Its type specimen is TAMU 2466A, a mandible (partial left mandible with p2-m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Garvin Gully, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Oakville Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Australocamelus.
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by J. Marcot on 2017-09-12
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Australocamelus orarius Patton p. 146 figs. 11 and 12 |
| 1998 | Australocamelus orarius Honey et al. p. 451 |
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†Australocamelus orarius Patton 1969
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. H. Patton 1969 | A small species of camel, about the size of Oxydactylus campestris (Cook 1909), but with slender and vertically shallow mandible. Premolars unreduced, subhypsodont, and both molars and premolars laterally compressed and elongate all of which distinguish it from Oxydactylus |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Hemingfordian or 18.50000 to 16.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hemingfordian | USA (Texas) | Australocamelus orarius (type locality: 18626) |