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Taxonomy
Dracaena colombiana was named by Estes (1961). Its type specimen is U.C. 39643, an other (complete right dentary ), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Paradracaena colombiana by Sullivan and Estes (1997).
It was recombined as Paradracaena colombiana by Sullivan and Estes (1997).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1961 | Dracaena colombiana Estes p. 4 figs. 2, 3, 4a |
| 1983 | Tupinambis huilensis Estes p. 92 |
| 1997 | Paradracaena colombiana Sullivan and Estes p. 102 |
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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.
†Dracaena colombiana Estes 1961
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Invalid names: Tupinambis huilensis Estes 1983 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Estes 1961 | Differs from the Recent Dracaena guianensis in the following characters: dentary larger and more robust; tooth row more strongly curved upward posteriorly ; tooth outline round or suboval ; tooth number fifteen. From the living D. paraguayensis it differs in possessing five more dentary teeth. It differs from Tupinambis teguixin in having more posteriorly expanded cheek teeth, which are larger, basally constricted, and wider than high, and in lacking a depression in the exterior notch for the surangular. |