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Tapirus oliverasi (tapir)
Taxonomy
Tapirus oliverasi was named by Ubilla (1983). Its type specimen is MNA-CPO 183, a mandible (Right mandible fragment with m1-m3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Arroyo Miguelete, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in the Libertad Formation of Uruguay.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1983 | Tapirus oliverasi Ubilla p. 87 figs. lam 1 A-B |
| 2013 | Tapirus oliverasi Holanda and Ferrero |
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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.
†Tapirus oliverasi Ubilla 1983 [tapir]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, MacFadden and Cerling 1996, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Uruguay (Montevideo) | Tapirus olivaresi (type locality: 146534) |