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Thalassoleon inouei
Taxonomy
Thalassoleon inouei was named by Kohno (1992). Its type specimen is CBM-PV 087, a partial skull (basicranial region of skull, left dentary with C, P/2-M/2 and right dentary with C, P/2-P/4), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Matsukura Industry Co., Ltd. Stone Quarry, which is in a Messinian/Zanclean marine sandstone in the Senhata Formation of Japan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1992 | Thalassoleon inouei Kohno p. 17 |
| 2003 | Thalassoleon inouei Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2005 | Thalassoleon inouei Deméré and Berta p. 382 |
| 2015 | Thalassoleon inouei Boessenecker and Churchill figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Thalassoleon inouei Berta et al. p. 215 figs. Fig. 5 |
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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.
†Thalassoleon inouei Kohno 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Gingerich 2003, Nowak 1991, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Messinian - Zanclean | Japan (Chiba) | Thalassoleon inouei (type locality: 70006) |