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Proscalops miocaenus
Taxonomy
Proscalops miocaenus was named by Matthew (1901). Its type specimen is AMNH 8949a, a partial skull (broken skull with posterior rostrum, zygomatic arch, P2-M3, and occluded posterior part of mandible with M1-M3), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vista, which is in a Whitneyan terrestrial horizon in the White River Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Proscalops.
Synonymy list
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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.
†Proscalops miocaenus Matthew 1901
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. D. Matthew 1901 | ast upper and lower molar greatly reduced. pi. minute, p1. slightly larger, pi. with rather strong crescentic deuterocone and very faint trittocone. Protoconid greater than metaconid on all the molars, paraconid internal. |
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| Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||