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Liops
Taxonomy
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1906 | Liops Gidley p. 165 figs. 1 - 3 |
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G. †Liops Gidley 1906
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. W. Gidley 1906 | Horn cores set wide apart and well back, as in Ovibos^ but much less drooping; continuous with the frontals laterally, with no burrs or rugosities at base; smooth throughout. Parietals forming a large part of the occiput, which is high and narrow above. No true lambdoidal crest. Foramen magnum about one and one-half times greater in diameter than in Ovibos. Occipital condyles set widely apart, with their borders continuous with the surrounding bones. Tympanic bone roughly triangular in shape, veiy smooth and flat, with no bulla, and tightly inclosed by the surrounding elements. Post-gleanoid process reduced to a low rounded knob. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Collections
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