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Leonardus cuspidatus
Taxonomy
Leonardus cuspidatus was named by Bonaparte (1990). Its type specimen is MACN-RN 172, a maxilla (partial left maxilla), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerrito del Mamifero, Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Leonardus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Leonardus cuspidatus Bonaparte p. 73 fig. 10 |
| 2004 | Leonardus cuspidatus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 385, 387 |
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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.
†Leonardus cuspidatus Bonaparte 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Luo et al. 2003, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Argentina (Río Negro) | Leonardus cuspidatus (type locality: 231686) |