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Taxonomy
Apterodon intermedius was named by Lange-Badré and Böhme (2005). Its type specimen is BSP/SMNS unnumbered, a mandible (Fragment mandible dex. with p4-m2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Espenhain/Sachsen, which is in a MP 22 marine horizon in the Bohlen Formation of Germany.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2005 | Apterodon intermedius Lange-Badré and Böhme p. 313 fig. 1d |
| 2012 | Apterodon intermedius Grohé et al. |
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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.
†Apterodon intermedius Lange-Badré and Böhme 2005
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. Lange-Badré and M. Böhme 2005 | Medium-sized Apterodon differing from the species previously described in having m2 with a strong paraconid clearly separate from the protoconid by a broad valley, an enamel fold obliterated at the location of the metaconid, a crushing talonid with a voluminous rounded central cusp, filling partly a narrow lingual postfossid, a straight cingulid attenuated except on the mesiolabial corner of the paraconid. |
Measurements
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||