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Leptoptilos robustus
Taxonomy
Leptoptilos robustus was named by Meijer and Awe Due (2010). Its type specimen is LBA-XI-01, 02, 03, and 04, a partial skeleton (associated partial skeleton with wing and leg bones), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Liang Bua Sector XI, Spits 43-47, which is in a Pleistocene cave siltstone in Indonesia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2011-03-05
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Leptoptilos robustus Meijer and Awe Due p. 714 |
| 2013 | Leptoptilos robustus Meijer et al. p. 879 fig. 3B |
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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.
†Leptoptilos robustus Meijer and Awe Due 2010
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Witmer and Rose 1991, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Indonesia (East Nusa Tenggara) | Leptoptilos robustus (68065 type locality: 106280 193368 193369 193370) |