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Protapirus obliquidens
Taxonomy
Protapirus obliquidens was named by Wortman and Earle (1893). Its type specimen is AMNH 659, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Indian Stronghold (Protoceras Channel), which is in a Whitneyan fluvial sandstone in the Brule Formation of South Dakota.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1893 | Protapirus obliquidens Wortman and Earle p. 162 |
| 1902 | Protapirus obliquidens Hay p. 627 |
| 1998 | Protapirus obliquidens Albright p. 214 |
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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.
†Protapirus obliquidens Wortman and Earle 1893
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||