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Nihoroa reimaea
Taxonomy
Nihoroa reimaea was named by Coste et al. (2024). Its type specimen is OU 22126, a skull (near-complete skull missing its left nasal, both lacrimojugals and ptery- goids. Both tympanoperiotics and ossicles are present), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Awamoko Creek , which is in a Waitakian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2024 | Nihoroa reimaea Coste et al. p. 740 |
| 2024 | Nihoroa reimaea Robinson et al. p. 579 |
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†Nihoroa reimaea Coste et al. 2024
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Coste et al. 2024 | Nihoroa reimaea is a gracile, longirostrine, polydont, heterodont odontocete (Figure 2). Its long rostrum carries long, procumbent anterior tusk-like teeth and small, slightly den- ticulate cheek teeth. The premaxilla forms the anterior 30% of the dorsoventrally com- pressed rostrum. It has asymmetrical antorbital notches and a short, rounded cranium. Its premaxilla extends along 84% of the condylobasal length (CBL), with long thin splint-like extensions reaching past the posterior margin of the nasals. The crowns of the first incisors (I1) are over 1.75 times the length of the second incisors (I2) on either side. It has a narrow mesorostral groove and wide maxillary flanges. N. reimaea differs from Waipatia maerewhenua (Fordyce 1994) in having a much smaller cranium (172 mm wide and 153 mm long, versus Waipatia’s 246 mm long and 251 mm wide). N. reimaea also has a narrower more dorsoventrally flattened rostrum and less differentiated cheek teeth than W. maerewhenua. N. reimaea differs from Ote- kaikea (Tanaka and Fordyce 2014, 2015b) in having a lower vertex, less expanded pre- maxilla on the face and a broader posterior process of the periotic. N. reimaea differs from Ediscetus (Albright et al. 2018) in having a less pronounced intertemporal constric- tion, a lower temporal crest, less inflated premaxilla and quadrangular nasals rather than triangular. N. reimaea differs from Nihohae matakoi (Coste et al. 2023) in having fewer tusk-like teeth, shorter I2 and I3s, a less pronounced intertemporal constriction, an ante- roposteriorly shorter vertex and more rounded zygomatic processes which reach further forward towards the postorbital processes. N. reimaea has an alveolar groove with indis- tinct interalveolar septa and likely had over 20 teeth per quadrant in comparison to Nihohae matakoi’s 17 teeth per quadrant. Compared to Nihohae matakoi, N. reimaea has a more rectangular pars cochlearis of the periotic and has an anterior incipient spine on the tympanic bulla. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Uhen 2004 | |||||