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Aphelops cristalatus
Taxonomy
Aphelops cristalatus was named by Henshaw (1942). Its type specimen is CIT 2806, a maxilla (part of the left maxillary, C.I.T. no. 2806 (pl. 10; fig. 1), and a part of the left mandible, C.I.T. no. 2807), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1942 | Aphelops cristalatus Henshaw p. 146 figs. Plate 10; text figure 6 |
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†Aphelops cristalatus Henshaw 1942
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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P. C. Henshaw 1942 | p1 large, only slightly reduced, bearing an internal crest and three transverse cristae. Upper deciduous molars with several cristae always present, very strong crochet and moderate to strong antecrochet, union
crochet and crista occurring almost always. P1 large, almond-shaped. · Dm2 long, very narrow, no protoconid-hypoconid valley. and normally proportioned as in modern rhinoceroses, not shortened as in Teleoceras. |