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Sarkastodon mongoliensis
Taxonomy
Sarkastodon mongoliensis was named by Granger (1938). Its type specimen is AMNH 26641, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 25 miles southwest of Iren Dabasu, which is in an Irdinmanhan terrestrial horizon in the Irdin Manha Formation of China. It is the type species of Sarkastodon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1938 | Sarkastodon mongoliensis Granger |
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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.
†Sarkastodon mongoliensis Granger 1938
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Gunnell 1998, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Middle Eocene or 47.80000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Irdinmanhan | China (Nei Mongol) | Sarkastodon mongoliensis (type locality: 182487) | |
| Middle Eocene | Mongolia | Sarkastodon mongoliensis (127656) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Nei Mongol) | Sarkastodon mongoliensis (28792) |