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Rubricacaecilia monbaroni
Taxonomy
Rubricacaecilia monbaroni was named by Evans and Sigogneau-Russell (2001). Its type specimen is MCM 171, a mandible (right pseudodentary), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ksar Met-Lili, Anoual, which is in a Tithonian/Berriasian deltaic sandstone in the Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco. It is the type species of Rubricacaecilia.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2001 | Rubricacaecilia monbaroni Evans and Sigogneau-Russell pp. 260-261 figs. 1-7 |
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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.
†Rubricacaecilia monbaroni Evans and Sigogneau-Russell 2001
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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S. E. Evans and D. Sigogneau-Russell 2001 | A small (c. 200 mm) primitive caecilian characterised by the combination of the following features: a pseudodentary with c. 28 narrow and close-packed pedicellate teeth, a long closure of the Meckelian fossa (up to tooth position 24), subdivision of the posterior Meckelian fossa by a horizontal shelf, only two teeth in the splenial tooth row, palatine teeth blade-like; internal process of pseudangular small; vertebrae with prominent anterior basapophyses, but lacking enlarged anteroventral basapophyseal process. |
Measurements
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Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Uhen 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Tithonian to the top of the Early/Lower Berriasian or 150.80000 to 140.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Tithonian - Early/Lower Berriasian | Morocco (Oriental) | Gymnophiona indet. (type locality: 45726) |