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Chalicotherium rusingense
Taxonomy
Chalicotherium rusingense was named by Butler (1965). Its type specimen is BMNH M 25270, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rusinga Island R107, which is in a Burdigalian dry floodplain horizon in the Hiwegi Formation of Kenya.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Chalicotherium rusingense Butler p. 173 figs. Figs. 1-20 |
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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.
†Chalicotherium rusingense Butler 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Coombs 1998, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | Uganda | Chalicotherium rusingense (28441) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Chalicotherium rusingense (87341 type locality: 113557) |