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Brachydelphis mazeasi
Taxonomy
Brachydelphis mazeasi was named by Muizon (1988). Its type specimen is MNHN PPI 121, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is El Jahuay, which is in a Tortonian shoreface siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru. It is the type species of Brachydelphis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Brachydelphis mazeasi Muizon p. 108 figs. Fig. 52-53 |
| 1996 | Brachydelphis mazeasi Cozzuol p. 326 |
| 2009 | Brachydelphis mazeasi Gutstein et al. p. 507 |
| 2010 | Brachydelphis mazeasi Cozzuol p. 199 |
| 2011 | Brachydelphis mazeasi Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
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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.
†Brachydelphis mazeasi Muizon 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Messinian or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Serravallian - Tortonian | Peru (Ica) | Brachydelphis mazeasi (116302) | |
| Tortonian | Peru | Brachydelphis mazeasi (type locality: 45486 96800) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Peru (Ica) | Brachydelphis mazeasi (45487) | |
| Messinian | Peru (Ica) | Brachydelphis mazeasi (78518) |