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Alamitherium bishopi
Taxonomy
Alamitherium bishopi was named by Bonaparte (2002). Its type specimen is MACN-RN 1034, a tooth (L upper molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large siltstone/sandstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Alamitherium.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2002 | Alamitherium bishopi Bonaparte p. 348 |
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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.
†Alamitherium bishopi Bonaparte 2002
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Argentina (Río Negro) | Alamitherium bishopi (type locality: 45087) |