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Goleroconus alfi
Taxonomy
Goleroconus alfi was named by McKenna and Honey (2008). Its type specimen is RAM 7171, a mandible (broken right den- tary bearing p4, m1, m2, and part of the trigonid of m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Goleroconus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2008 | Goleroconus alfi McKenna and Honey p. 32 figs. 3 - 6 |
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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.
†Goleroconus alfi McKenna and Honey 2008
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. C. McKenna and J. G. Honey 2008 | Lower fourth premolar larger than molars and lingually hypsodont; p4 lacking both anterior basal cusp and labial heel cusp but having worn metaconid-like ridge and lingually crested heel; all lower molars lingually hypsodont; paraconid retained on all lower molars (including the m3 of the original jaw), although paraconid small, and when worn, resembling short, anteriorly projecting paralophid of Haploconus angustus Cope 1881 (AMNH 3447) and Haploconus corniculatus Cope, 1888, (AMNH 3538, 16693); size 157% that of Conacodon kohlbergeri Archibald et al., 1983b (see measurements in Table 1). Goleroconus is distinguished from various other periptychids by combination of features, including hypsodonty, premolar morphology, molar paraconid size and placement, position of molar talonid cusps relative to each other, and relative development of cingulids. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Archibald 1998 | |||||