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Bonisicyon illacabo
Taxonomy
Bonisicyon illacabo was named by Werdelin (2009). Its type specimen is HMD1/P11, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gona, which is in a Messinian terrestrial horizon in the Nawata Formation of Ethiopia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Bonisicyon illacabo Werdelin p. 777 figs. Fig. 1A-F |
| 2010 | Bonisicyon illacabo Werdelin and Peigne p. 611 |
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†Bonisicyon illacabo Werdelin 2009
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. Werdelin 2009 | Amphicyonidae of small size; carnassial shear on m1 entirely mesiodistal; m1 hypoconid formed into elongated crest, separated from trigonid by a narrow postvallid notch and effectively a part of the carnassial shear; m1 metaconid in evidence only as a bulge on the lingual side of the protoconid; m1 relatively wide and bulbous at the base of the crown; m2 broad and short. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Hunt 1998, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Messinian or 7.24600 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian - Messinian | Kenya | Bonisicyon illacabo (22241) | |
| Messinian | Ethiopia | Bonisicyon illacabo (type locality: 195611) |