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Merycopotamus medioximus
Taxonomy
Merycopotamus medioximus was named by Lihoreau et al. (2004). Its type specimen is GSP Y13310, a partial skull (artial skull of a juvenile individual with preserved crowns of the right P4/ and M3/, and left M1/-M3/,), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSP Locality y312, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in the Dhok Pathan Formation of Pakistan.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Merycopotamus medioximus Lihoreau et al. |
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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.
†Merycopotamus medioximus Lihoreau et al. 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Kron and Manning 1998, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Pakistan (Punjab) | Merycopotamus medioximus (type locality: 230458) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Thailand (Nakorn Ratchasima) | Merycopotamus medioximus (67172) |