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Malaquiferus tourteloti
Taxonomy
Malaquiferus tourteloti was named by Gazin (1955) [genotype]. Its type specimen is USNM 20588, a skull (Greater part of skull with P4-M3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dry Creek, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Wagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Malaquiferus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1955 | Malaquiferus tourteloti Gazin |
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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.
†Malaquiferus tourteloti Gazin 1955
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. L. Gazin 1955 | alaqiiiferus tourteloti is comparable to Protoreodon petersoni in size of teeth, although the cranial proportions indicate a form somewhat greater in size. Other specific characters are not distinguished from those of the genus. The lower teeth are not known. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Prothero 1998, Lillegraven 1979, Kiessling 2004, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988 | |||||