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Phenacocoelus typus
Taxonomy
Phenacocoelus typus was named by Peterson (1907) [genotype]. Its type specimen is CM 1263, a partial skeleton (the greater portion of a skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Monroe Creek (Type), which is in a Monroecreekian terrestrial horizon in the Monroe Creek Formation of Nebraska. It is the type species of Phenacocoelus.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1907 | Phenacocoelus typus Peterson |
| 1928 | Phenacocoelus munroensis Peterson p. 161 figs. PI. XVIII, figs.1 - 9 |
| 1937 | Phenacocoelus munroensis Thorpe p. 181 figs. PI. XXXVII, fig. 9 |
| 1937 | Phenacocoelus typus Thorpe p. 182 figs. Figs. 5, 132-136; PI. XLIII, fig. 2 |
| 1950 | Phenacocoelus typus Schultz and Falkenbach p. 111 figs. 1-3, 11, 13, 15 |
| 1980 | Phenacocoelus typus MacFadden p. 97 |
| 2007 | Phenacocoelus typus Stevens and Stevens p. 164 |
| 2023 | Phenacocoelus typus Stevens et al. p. 96 figs. Figure 80; Appendix 10B; Table A34 |
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†Phenacocoelus typus Peterson 1907
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Invalid names: Phenacocoelus munroensis Peterson 1928 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach 1950 | SKULL: Smaller than those of other species of genus; frontals rather flat with depressed area in supraorbital vacuity region; nasals not noticeably retracted; anterior nasal-maxilla contact in area above P1, oblong supraorbital vacuity same position as elongated slot-like depression in P. kayi and the supraorbital foramen in P. stouti; zygomatic arch light, with slight inward curve below posterior border of orbit (more U-shaped from side view than in P. kayi or P. stouti, more like Hypsiops brachymelis petersoni in this respect); posterior border of zygomatic arch above anterior border of postglenoid process, not extending so far posteriorly as in other species of genus; infraorbital forarnen above middle of P 3 ; facial vacuity present; bulla more inflated in P. kayi and P. stouti; palate more oval in outline than other known forms of genus; postglenoid process moderately heavy but lighter and with steeper incline on external border than in other two species of genus.
MANDIBLE: Smaller than those of other species of genus ; ramus deep for size of skull (deeper than in examples of P. kayi and P. stouti); inferior border with less suggestion of downward curve below and posterior to Ma than in latter species. DENTITION: Series shorter than in other species of genus; C/ and P1 moderately large ... crowded than in other two species but slightly overlapping and nearly parallel to the alveolar border; slight suggestion of posterior intermediate crest on P2 (Pa worn in available material, and posterior intermediate crest not present). LIMBS: Short and comparatively robust; considerably smaller than examples of P. kayi and Merychyus siouxensis. | |
| M. S. Stevens et al. 2023 | Smaller species of Phenacocoelus (M1-3 length = 40-47 mm). |