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Bunophorus pattersoni
Taxonomy
Wasatchia pattersoni was named by Krishtalka and Stucky (1986). Its type specimen is FMNH P26590, a set of teeth (right p4 - m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Draw East into Distillary Draw, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the DeBeque Formation of Colorado.
It was recombined as Bunophorus pattersoni by Stucky and Krishtalka (1990), Theodor et al. (2007).
It was recombined as Bunophorus pattersoni by Stucky and Krishtalka (1990), Theodor et al. (2007).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Wasatchia pattersoni Krishtalka and Stucky |
| 1990 | Bunophorus pattersoni Stucky and Krishtalka p. 163 fig. 5 |
| 2007 | Bunophorus pattersoni Theodor et al. p. 40 |
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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.
†Bunophorus pattersoni Krishtalka and Stucky 1986
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. K. Stucky and L. Krishtalka 1990 | araconid vestigial to absent on P4, unlike B. robustus; M,_3 proportionately more inflated and paraconid weaker than in B. robustus, B. grangeri; M1_3 paraconid stronger than in B. macropternus, B. etsagicus, B. sin- clairi; P4 gracile, uninflated, unlike in B. macropternus, B. etsagicus; differs from B. sinclairi in having a strong cristid obliqua on M2_3 and lacking a metaconid on P4 ; smaller than B. grangeri, B. etsagicus and B. sinclairi. |
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Stucky 1998 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wasatchian to the top of the Bridgerian or 56.00000 to 45.90000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Wasatchian | USA (Colorado) | Wasatchia pattersoni (15293 15310 type locality: 15319 15328 15330 15338 15416) | |
| Bridgerian | USA (Colorado) | Bunophorus macropternus (16222) |