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Taxonomy
Paenepetenyia zhudingi was named by Storch (1995). Its type specimen is IVPP V12125, a mandible (sin with m1-m3), and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Ertemte 2, which is in a Miocene lacustrine horizon in China. It is the type species of Paenepetenyia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Paenepetenyia zhudingi Storch p. 231 |
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†Paenepetenyia zhudingi Storch 1995
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| G. Storch 1995 | Large-sized. 5 upper antemolars in front of P4; I sup. not fissident; i inf. slender and bicuspulate; a1 elongate, double-cusped, and with posterolingual basin; parastyle on P4 not conspicuously protruding anteriorly and protocone located rather close to paracone. p4 elongate, two-cusped, and with large posterolingual basin; M1-2 with distinct posterior emargination, rather expanded and concave hypoconal flange, well-developed protocone, and metaloph absent in most of the specimens, short in the remainder; M1 with continuous endoloph; m1-2 with strong and high entoconid and entocristid, entoconid close to metaconid, and with broad ectocingulid; m1 with evenly convex (not rectangular) anterolabial outline and short talonid; m3 talonid greatly reduced; lower articular facet of massive condyloid process situated rather anteriorly and interarticular area broad; internal temporal fossa subdivided by strong limula; coronoid process rather small; one mandibular foramen. |