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Taxonomy
Myxomygale gracilis was named by Ziegler (2003). It is not extant. Its type specimen is NHMA P10-615-2 Humerus dext., a set of limb elements. Its type locality is Petersbuch 10, which is in a MN 7 + 8 fissure fill horizon in Germany.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2003 | Myxomygale gracilis Ziegler p. 635 figs. Fig. 9D |
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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.
†Myxomygale gracilis Ziegler 2003
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Ziegler 2003 | Small-sized Myxomygale characterised [by] a mental foramen situated under the protoconid of m1, and oblique cristid extending labially in m1, joining a makerd metacristid in m2 and m3. M1 without parastyle and paracrista, with deeply divided mesostyle. The humerus is urotrichine and slender with long ledge-like teres tubercle and a pectoral tubercle situated laterally |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||