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Thelephon contritus
Taxonomy
Thelegnathus contritus was named by Gow (1977). Its type specimen is BP/1/3512, a partial skeleton (lacking the snout and anterior third of the mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Winnaarsbaken, which is in an Anisian dry floodplain siliciclastic in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Thelephon.
It was recombined as Thelephon contritus by Modesto and Damiani (2003).
It was recombined as Thelephon contritus by Modesto and Damiani (2003).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Thelegnathus contritus Gow p. 115 figs. 4D, 6, 8D |
| 2003 | Thelephon contritus Modesto and Damiani p. 60 fig. 4 |
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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.
†Thelephon contritus Gow 1977
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. E. Gow 1977 | One tooth of the molar series almost twice as broad in lateral aspect as any other. (The position of this tooth in the row will vary with the age of the individual [...]). | |
| S.P. Modesto and R. J. Damiani 2003 | This procolophonid is distinguished from other South African species
by the presence of a posterior marginal tooth that is almost twice as expanded mediodistally as the neighboring teeth. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||