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Taxonomy
Chaetocauda was named by Wang (1985). It is extant.
It was assigned to Dryomyinae by Daams and de Bruijn (1995).
It was assigned to Dryomyinae by Daams and de Bruijn (1995).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1985 | Chaetocauda Wang |
| 1995 | Chaetocauda Daams and de Bruijn p. 10 |
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G. Chaetocauda Wang 1985
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Daams and H. de Bruijn 1995 | There is a dark chestnut around the eyes. Ears large, overing when lid forward to the eye. The terminal of tail is club shape, cover with dense hairs, and can not see the scale ring in external texture. The interorbited width is about one firth of thc greatest length of skull. incisive foramina is long, its posterior cdge extend back beyond half of alveolar of M1. The mesopterygoid fossa extend forward beyond the posterior half of of alveolar of M3, so the palate bone is pressed in square shape. The mandible gracile in appearance, coronoid process are long and slender and the upper margin at the samc plane as occlusal of the cheektooth. The uppcr incisors are deeply grooved in the center of surface and the cuting edge with a "V" shape notch. The upper molar has an endoloph which connects with the anteroloph and situates in the inner side of the first upper molar. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available