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Parabrontops lunanensis
Taxonomy
Parabrontops lunanensis was named by Chow and Hu (1959) [A complete skull slightly crushed, but very well preserved with nearly complete upper teeth]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lunan beds, Anren village, Lunan, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Lumeiyi Formation of China.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1959 | Parabrontops lunanensis Chow and Hu |
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†Parabrontops lunanensis Chow and Hu 1959
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Chow and C. C. Hu 1959 | A titanothere of moderate size; skull highly brachycephalic, with strongly expanded zygomatic arches; naso-frontal horns well developed, blunt-topped and subcircular in cross section; nasal bones short and narrow anteriorly, cranial region of skull broad and sharply constricted posteriorly: upper dentition - 2.1.4.3; upper incisors much reduced, post-canine diastema short, premolars relatively small. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Mader 1998, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Middle Eocene or 47.80000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | China (Yunnan) | Parabrontops lunanensis (type locality: 36668) |