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Taxonomy
Palaeolama crassa was named by Hoffstetter (1952). Its type specimen is EPN V. 3026, a limb element, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Río Chiche, which is in a Pleistocene lacustrine sandstone/tuff in Ecuador.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1952 | Palaeolama crassa Hoffstetter p. 343 fig. 102c,104 |
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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.
†Palaeolama crassa Hoffstetter 1952
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: MacFadden and Cerling 1996, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene (interglacial) | Ecuador (Pichincha) | Palaeolama crassa (type locality: 133659) |