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Purbeckodon batei
Taxonomy
Purbeckodon batei was named by Butler et al. (2012). Its type specimen is DORCM GS 701, a tooth (a left upper molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sunnydown Farm Quarry (lower clay), which is in a Berriasian/Berriasian wet floodplain limestone/claystone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Purbeckodon.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2012 | Purbeckodon batei Butler et al. p. 138 figs. 4-8 |
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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.
†Purbeckodon batei Butler et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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P. M. Butler et al. 2012 | Upper molars with main cusps aligned and double (labial and lingual) cingulum, interrupted briefly above A labially. Differ from those of eutriconodontans and of most morganucodontans by the asymmetry of the crown, due to the large size of A, the poor development of cusp B (primitive or derived) and the concomitant mesial position of A. Characterised also by the reduction of cusp C (derived), by the hollowing on either side of the distal crest of A (derived), the absence of cusp F (derived), and the vestigial state of the mesial interlocking groove (derived). Cingular denticulations weak. Wear mainly on the top of the cusps. |
Measurements
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Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Berriasian to the top of the Middle Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Early/Lower Berriasian - Middle Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Purbeckodon batei (28401 type locality: 28995) |