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Tchaltacerus longicornis
Taxonomy
Tchaltacerus longicornis was named by Bouvrain (1998) [Type site is Calta,Turkey. Material held in the collections of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.]. Its type specimen is ACA-165, a partial skull (basicranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Calta, which is in a Ruscinian floodplain horizon in Türkiye. It is the type species of Tchaltacerus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Tchaltacerus longicornis Bouvrain |
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†Tchaltacerus longicornis Bouvrain 1998
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Bouvrain 1998 | Bovide de taille moyenne. Chevilles fortes par rapport a la taille du crane, implantees audessus des orbites, redresses, avec une face posterieure presentant une courbure s'accentuenat vers l'extremite distale. Section transversale des chevilles aplatie transversalement. Pas de sinus. Bords orbitaires fortement proeminents. Mastoide etroite et posterieure, basioccipital court et large. Metapodes courts et robustes. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||