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Saghatherium majus
Taxonomy
Saghatherium majus was named by Andrews (1906). Its type specimen is BMNH M8434, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is NNW of Birket Qarun, which is in an Eocene/Oligocene fluvial horizon in the Jebel Qatrani Formation of Egypt.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1906 | Saghatherium majus Andrews p. 91 |
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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.
†Saghatherium majus Andrews 1906
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 37.71000 to 27.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt (Fayum) | Saghatherium majus (type locality: 65960) |