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Platycerabos dodsoni
Taxonomy
Parabos dodsoni was named by Barbour and Schultz (1941). Its type specimen is UNSM 1-17-6-41, a skull (skull, lacking dentition), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Platycerabos dodsoni by Barbour and Schultz (1942), Kurten and Anderson (1980).
It was recombined as Platycerabos dodsoni by Barbour and Schultz (1942), Kurten and Anderson (1980).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1941 | Parabos dodsoni Barbour and Schultz p. 63 figs. 24 - 27 |
| 1942 | Platycerabos dodsoni Barbour and Schultz p. 223 |
| 1980 | Platycerabos dodsoni Kurten and Anderson p. 338 |
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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.
†Platycerabos dodsoni Barbour and Schultz 1941
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz 1941 | Form and proportions of skull ap- proaching those of Bos, but differing in horn-cores and other characters; frontals broad; occipital crest very thick and overhanging; occiput ex- tended, broad, and shallow; horn-cores flat, curving downward, outward,
and forward from skull; horn-core encircled by a very rugose and promi- nent burr-like ridge at the base. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Collections
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