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Wirunodon chanku
Taxonomy
Wirunodon chanku was named by Goin and Candela (2004) [n. sp.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Rosa (LACM Loc. 6289), which is in a Rupelian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Yahuarango Formation of Peru. It is the type species of Wirunodon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2004 | Wirunodon chanku Goin and Candela |
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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.
†Wirunodon chanku Goin and Candela 2004
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. J. Goin and A. M. Candela 2004 | Upper molars with almost straight centrocrista; both protocone and trigon basin reduced; stylar shelf wide; postmetacrista well developed; preparacrista connects with stylar cusp A; stylar cusps B and D reduced and labiolingually compressed; paracone very reduced relative to metacone, suboval in section, and with its long axis peculiarly oriented with an anterolabial–posterolingual axis; para- and metaconules absent. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Luo et al. 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988 | |||||