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Procoptodon pusio
Taxonomy
Procoptodon pusio was named by Owen (1874). Its type specimen is BMNH 39996, a maxilla (right maxillary fragment), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gowrie, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Australia. It is the type species of Procoptodon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1874 | Procoptodon pusio Owen p. 788 figs. Plate LXXVII, fig. 7 |
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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.
†Procoptodon pusio Owen 1874
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973, Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Procoptodon pusio (135895) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Procoptodon pusio (135917) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Procoptodon pusio (95899 135763 136507 136722 181761) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Procoptodon pusio (type locality: 135912 136721 136723 136724) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Procoptodon pusio (28422 95863) |