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Watutia novaeguineae
Taxonomy
Watutia novaeguineae was named by Flannery et al. (1989). Its type specimen is GMK52950, a maxilla (left maxillary fragment containing P3, M2-5), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Watut River, which is in a Pliocene fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic/tuff in the Otibanda Formation of Papua New Guinea. It is the type species of Watutia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1989 | Watutia novaeguineae Flannery et al. pp. 146-149 fig. 1 |
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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.
†Watutia novaeguineae Flannery et al. 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pliocene or 3.60000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Papua New Guinea (Morobe) | Watutia novaeguineae (type locality: 36266) |