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Protemnodon bandharr
Taxonomy
Protemnodon bandharr was named by Dawson et al. (1999). Its type specimen is AM F69830,, a mandible (right dentary with M4), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Big Sink, Wellington Caves , which is in a Pliocene terrestrial breccia in Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Protemnodon bandharr Dawson et al. |
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†Protemnodon bandharr Dawson et al. 1999
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. Dawson et al. 1999 | The smallest species of Protemnodon yet described,
being smaller than P. nombe and P. buloloensis. Molars are in the size range of Dorcopsoides fossilis Woodburne, 1967 among similar extinct taxa. Premolars are approximately equal to fourth molar in length and are shorter relative to molar length than any other species of Protemnodon. Distinguished from the similar Dorcopsoides fossilis by the more extensive lingual cingulum and broad lingual valley of p3 and by the absence of 4 postparacristae on the upper molars. Distinguished from species of Wallabia by the extremely robust dentary compared with the size of the molar teeth and the absence of postparacristae and premetacristae on the upper molars. |