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Plesiocolopirus hancocki
Taxonomy
Colodon hancocki was named by Radinsky (1963). Its type specimen is UOMNH 20377, a partial skull (anterior part of a skull with left P1'-M3), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Protapirus hancocki by Hanson (1996) and Colbert and Schoch (1998); it was recombined as Plesiocolopirus hancocki by Schoch (1989), Albright (1998) and Holbrook (1999).
It was recombined as Protapirus hancocki by Hanson (1996) and Colbert and Schoch (1998); it was recombined as Plesiocolopirus hancocki by Schoch (1989), Albright (1998) and Holbrook (1999).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Plesiocolopirus hancocki Radinsky 1963
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. B. Radinsky 1963 | Medium-sized helaletids: length M " = 44.4 mm. Small canines present. P
24 narrow with only a cingulum lingually. P " relatively short and wide, but barely submolar- iform, with at most only a shallow anterolingual groove indicating incipient separation of 12 protocone and hypocone; metaloph slightly less prominent than protoloph. M " meta- cones shortened and lingually displaced, but convex labially. P2 relatively short but with- out entoconid. P3.4 with small entoconids. See Table 12 for measurements |