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Taxonomy
Megaceros baotouensis was named by Huang et al. (1989) [The type specimen is stored in the museum of Baotou, Inner Mongolia (Neimeng). The number in the Chinese article is: BM 8601, in the English abstract it is: NM 8601 (NM must be right)]. Its type specimen is NM 8601, an other (one right antler, brow tine damaged), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Houshuigou, bed 5, Baotou, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial sandstone in China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1989 | Megaceros baotouensis Huang et al. |
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†Megaceros baotouensis Huang et al. 1989
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. Huang et al. 1989 | The main tine is flat and long; it is crooked. The branches are short and the flat thin part did not develop a palmate structure. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999 | |||||
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 |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Nei Mongol) | Megaceros baotouensis (type locality: 35929) |